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Beit Iba, Wed 20.2.08, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Tags: Arbitrariness, e.g. an arbitrary decision Passage Restrictions Violence
Observers: Rina Z. Inbal R.
Feb-20-2008
| Morning

Natanya translating.
 
9.15 – 10.45
A short time after we got to the checkpoint limitations of movement were cancelled. 8 men who had tried to bypass during the period of limitations were detained in the jorra. Rina insists we can talk to them, the commander tries to stop her and uses the most effective way he knows…he closes the checkpoint. As far as we can judge this holding of a civilian population to ransom so as to stop us speaking to those detained is immoral and also contrary to orders. But it does not surprise us as this is the same commander whom we saw beating a Palestinian and continued to kick him when he fell to the ground and lay there. This beating also took place in the jorra and we did not dare to go towards it.

  • 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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