Beit Iba, Wed 14.5.08, Afternoon
15:40 – No cars in line. We met Sami, who
brought us bottles of oil to sell. He said that at Zaatra and Huwara
there is a huge crowd today.
16:00 – No crowding in the shed. All the
turnstiles are working and traffic is flowing. According to our
observation, the wait in line is about 10 minutes. No detainees.
The checkpoint commander – S. – listens and helps when
necessary. When we first arrived we saw a soldier go up to him and
say: "Did you see that they are standing here?" and the
commander answered, "What do you care?"…
In the humanitarian line there is a blind
person. The commander asks one of those going through to help him, and
they go out of the checkpoint hand in hand. It turns out that the
commander is a school principal in Jerusalem;
religious. Warmed our hearts.
16:30 – We left the checkpoint. We didn't see
any reason to remain there.
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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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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