Beit Iba, Sun 31.8.08, Morning
06:50 Irtah checkpoint: Many laborers arriving and moving relatively quickly to the inspection point. Many are waiting on the Israeli for employers who haven't yet arrived.
07:25 ‘Anabta: Almost no cars in either direction, no delays.
07:40 Beit Iba: Very light traffic on the way there as well. A long line of cars in front of the checkpoint, but they're going through at a reasonable rate. There's crowding at the pedestrian checkpoint where documents are examined. We timed that it took 15 minutes from the time a man arrived until he went through after his ID was checked. We had the impression that the examination speeded up after we arrived. Women and others who were not checked passed through immediately. There was one detainee on the Palestinian side.
08:00 We left. On the way back we stopped at ‘Anabta again; traffic flowed.
Beit Iba
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A perimeter checkpoint west of the city of Nablus. Operated from 2001 to 2009 as one of the four permanent checkpoints closing on Nablus: Beit Furik and Awarta to the east and Hawara to the south. A pedestrian-only checkpoint, where MachsomWatch volunteers were present daily for several hours in the morning and afternoon to document the thousands of Palestinians waiting for hours in long queues with no shelter in the heat or rain, to leave the district city for anywhere else in the West Bank. From March 2009, as part of the easing of the Palestinian movement in the West Bank, it was abolished, without a trace, and without any adverse change in the security situation.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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