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Beit Iba, Thu 24.4.08, Morning
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Beit Iba
Observers: Zvia S. Hanna P. Natanya translating.
Beit Iba. 8.30 Little traffic. Some buses with children leaving Nablus. The one driver had an ID but the permit was for hie friend. The DCO representative intervented and the bus went through. In the hold were 3 detainees. Two were drivers who had caused problems and one a young man who had tried to bypass the checkpoint. When we spoke to the commander about them he replied that he did not wish to speak to us.
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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