Beit Iba, Thu 1.11.07, Afternoon
Beit Iba
A report from a building worker who returned from work: the checkpoint opened today only at 6 AM, instead of 5. A soldier was standing there and welcoming the workers with strong curses.
Large-scale building improvements going on – in order to normalize the lives of the soldiers at the checkpoint.
A line of 30 people leaving Nablus.
At the entrance to Nablus there is no inspection at all.
A car doing its test – not allowed to go through.
Because of the building work, we are not allowed to speak with the detainees. After many requests to speak to someone in charge – and on the grounds that we are a humanitarian organization – and therefore we must be allowed to speak to them – he allows us to do it, with a wave of the hand.
A few minutes after we spoke with the detainees, they started to also inspect people entering Nablus. We leave the area, with a bad feeling.
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.
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