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Beit Iba, Thu 5.3.09, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Zvia S, Rachel A (reporting)
Mar-05-2009
| Morning

09:35
Beit Iba

 

A traffic accident on
the way. Two ambulances arrive and take the injured in the direction of Nablus. There is work
at the entrance to Deir Sharaf – preparation of a new checkpoint.

At the checkpoint, a
lot of taxis in the rank.

Few people coming and
going. Entry is free. Exit from Nablus
incurs a check.

Cars can enter Nablus, but the taxis
prefer not to, in order to avoid traffic jams on the way out, so the drivers
say.

And so, still and
unnecessarily, people alight before the checkpoint, enter on foot and have to
take another taxi on the other side.

Either they are used to
it, or it’s comfortable for somebody, and will certainly change in the
future.

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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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