Beit Iba, Thu 8.11.07, Morning
Beit Iba 8.10
Men passed quickly into Nablus. Women and the elderly were not checked. Many students. No lines of cars. At the exit of Nablus some traffic. The passage was through the turnstiles. Bags and IDs checked swiftly. Military policewoman were without name tags and were not very friendly.
The commander came up to us and told us of one of our members who a few days ago had cursed a soldier in a very vulgar way "you are a bastard and you should have a bad year." He could not say exactly when.
Nina speaks to him about a soldier who hit a Palestinian who had pushed him and the commander is adamant that a Palestinian may not touch a soldier and if he does so it is permitted to hit him until he learns his lesson. Afterwards, the soldier is to detain and arrest him.
The DCO representative, T. of whom there should only be more like him knows Arabs and takes part in the routine of the checkpoint sometimes checking cars and sometimes IDs.
8.45
A long line of car at the entrance to Nablus and we asked the DCO to help. Two taxi drivers detained for an hour.
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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