Beit Iba, Wed 9.1.08, Afternoon
Beit Iba
15.25 At Beit Iba there were 11 cars in both directions. We met some students who said that they had waited 2 hours. When we got to the turnstiles we reckoned that the waiting period was half an hour for two actions. At each turnstile people had to pass through the magnometer and if it squeaked they had to turn out their pockets and sometimes take off their shoes. We saw two dogtrainers and a bunch of what seemed to be trainees. The humanitarian line passed quickly.
Rudi from the DCO arrived and he helped us a lot especially as the commander would not even look at us. Two detainees who had been in the enclosure even before we arrived were helped by him. He said that they had tried to bypass and been punished. We also met two young people from the ISM, one from New York and the other England. We exchanged information. When the detainees were freed we left.
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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