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Beit Iba, Thu 24.1.08, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Nora R., Chana P (reporting)
Jan-24-2008
| Morning

 Beit Iba. 09:00– long line at exit. In answer to our question, the checkpoint commander explained that the area is being renovated still, and it is not possible to use a second lane. Suspect women, heavily dressed, are directed for more thorough checking by a woman soldier in a separate room. Similarly, young girls who do not yet have IDs are delayed. At the exit from the checkpoint there is a metal detector, and the transients have to remove coats and belts. 


 

 

  • 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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