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Beit Iba, Tue 29.1.08, Afternoon
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Beit Iba
Observers: Amit Y., Miryam Sh. (reporter) Translator: Orna B.
14:20 – Beit Iba.
Crazy rain. Rivers streaming down the road. One can hardly reach the checkpoint.
The entrance lane is a flowing river. The soldiers are trying to improvise some ramps but traffic is very slow. Luckily there are not too many entering. At the exit too there are relatively few people and the inspection is curt and to the point. The commander Y. and the DCO guy are trying to be helpful and answer our questions.
15:35 We leave under torrential rain. We turn towards Beit Lid and reach the end of the queue. Although the DCO man had said that traffic was flowing again, there was still a heavy queue. We were told by the Centre that the flour lorry had been released.
15:50 Jit -No road block.
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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