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Beit Iba, Tue 6.1.09, Morning
Place:
Beit Iba
Observers: Hagar, Rachel A. (reporting), Translator: Charles K.
A quiet morning. No tension apparent, despite what's happening in the south.
06:55 Jit junction – no checkpoint.
07:10 Beit Iba – Few people going through in both directions. Two vehicle lanes open, but the inspection booths are always manned. Most of the time, 10-15 vehicles – mostly trucks – are on line waiting to exit. Cars and people on foot coming in aren't checked. A group of officers is wandering around, including Zaharan, from the DCO. He and the checkpoint commander reply, in response to our inquiry, that for now the plan to dismantle this checkpoint has been suspended. 07:55 Shave Shomron – Two soldiers at the inspection booth. They aren't stopping cars.
07:10 Beit Iba – Few people going through in both directions. Two vehicle lanes open, but the inspection booths are always manned. Most of the time, 10-15 vehicles – mostly trucks – are on line waiting to exit. Cars and people on foot coming in aren't checked. A group of officers is wandering around, including Zaharan, from the DCO. He and the checkpoint commander reply, in response to our inquiry, that for now the plan to dismantle this checkpoint has been suspended. 07:55 Shave Shomron – Two soldiers at the inspection booth. They aren't stopping cars.
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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