Beit Iba, Tue 25.12.07, Afternoon
Beit Iba. The renovations are almost finished and the place looks clean but maybe this also encourages the soldiers to keep the place clean and sterile from the presence of the women of Machsomwatch. When we arrived the commander told us that we were forbidden to stand near the turnstile and had to stand in the lane leading to the checkpoint. Therefore we cannot see what is happening inside and we also cannot see where those who are detained are kept and so cannot know what is happening there.
We saw that there were two queues, one humanitarian which serves both men and women so that they keep brushing up against one another. Checking is slow as people have to undress and the wait is about half-an-hour long. We spoke to the representative of the DCO and asked him to prevent the friction between the men and the women in the humanitarian queue. He said that he had noticed this and was on his way to the commander to speak to him. After that there was a change but it was only a slight change.
In the car lane there were about 10 cars in both directions and checking was fairly quick.
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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