Beit Iba, Tue 27.11.07, Morning
Beit Iba – 08:45-09:50
The construction work is nearly finished. According to the checkpoint commander by the end of this week. Today the people entering Nablus and the ones coming out pass in the same lane, but no lines form. Traffic – both vehicular and pedestrian – is sparse. At this hour most students must have passed already.
On the checking table the people coming out empty their bags as usual.A young man is required to perform the notorious so-called "dance": lift your trouser legs, lift your shirt, turn around etc.
The usual sights: a disabled little girl and her wheelchair pass into Nablus on a donkey-driven cart. An old, stooped couple waddle on foot. This is due to the restrictions on vehicular traffic into the city.
The contractor's workers come to work where we're standing and demand that we move, impose on my private space quite unnecessarily rudely, as we didn't even argue.
On the way to Al Funduq (separate report) we pass near Shavei Shomron. No detainees today, survivors who try to bypass the checkpoints.
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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