Beit Iba, Tue 12.8.08, Afternoon
Beit Iba.16:00 We approached the checkpoint and found it entirely empty. The detention area was also empty. 16:10 6 trucks at the entrance to Nablus. The soldiers are bored and sought our company in order to relieve their boredom. Assaf, the commander, asked them not to talk with us, but they didn't pay attention to him. The summer semester is over, thus there weren't any students. Tomer, the DCO rep, said that they had closed off with cement barriers all the alternative routes around the checkpoint. In Assaf's opinion, the opening of route 60 to Jenin also contributed to the lightness of the traffic at Beit Iba. 16:20 3 cars at the entrance to Nablus. No line at the exit. 5 people in the humanitarian line. In fact, the longer line is at the entrance to Nablus: 10 people. They can enter freely from Huwarra. 16:45 We left
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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