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Beit Iba, Thu 10.4.08, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Tags: Detainees Maltreatment Violence
Observers: Nora R. Rachel S. Hana P. Netanya translating
Apr-10-2008
| Morning

Beit Iba.

At the café some drivers come to us and say that settlers from Shave Shomron and Kedumiem are throwing stones at cars on the main road.

This has happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, 8-9 April, and also the previous week.

The driver. Mahmud Said Abi Behatan showed us the glass in the front which had been smashed by the settlers of Kedumiem who threw stones from inside the house which they have on the main road. He added that he had not been scared to make a complaint to the police.
At the checkpoint we saw a man who was taken aside and checked very thoroughly. The representative of the DCO explained to us that the man was wanted by the secret service. He was freed after half an hour.

  • 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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