Beit Iba, Thu 27.12.07, Morning
Beit Iba. 9:00. The checkpoint has been renovated and the soldiers are in a closed building with a window. There is a humanitarian lane which is meant for the old and for women. there are two car lanes at the exit and entrance.A young driver who tried to bypass the checkpoint with a small truck is checked very carefully with the aid of the dog. Afterwards the man is sent to the jorra. There were already a few other people there. When we said that the soldiers did not have the authority to punish, the commander said that those were the orders of the DCO. One of the detainees had a permit which had expired and another was an older man who had tried to pass for medical reasons and had a letter from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. We tried to speak to the commander but it did not help.
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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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