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Beit Iba, Thu 19.2.09, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Rachel, Shoshi,Tamar (reporting); Natanya translating.
Feb-19-2009
| Morning

7.40 Beit Iba.
Very unpleasant weather. Strong winds and cold. Pedestrians go through quickly on their way to Nablus. No queue. Also not that of cars. The commander comes to ask who we are. For a change he has nothing to say about our presence at the checkpoing.  The soldiers are dressed with berets on their heads.
 

8.30 The road of Shave Shomron in the direction of Jenin. A soldier stops us at the checkpoint and says that the road is only open to Palestinians because of the confusion at Chomesh. He did not have details. He says that usually the checkpoint is open during the day and closes at night from 21.00 – 6.00 in the morning. He said something about the night activities of the soldiers in Nablus.

  • 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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