Beit Iba, Wed 9.7.08, Afternoon
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Beit Iba
14:45 p.m. It is quiet. The pedestrian line is short (about half the shed) and many pass in the humanitarian line. Two checking positions are active. The checking is thorough but efficient and quick. No beeps from the magnometer. No detainees. Thorough checking of ID's of people entering Nablus. Soldiers check bus passengers in the bus. There are few cars entering Nablus (a line of about 5 cars) and even fewer exiting but a considerable number of heavy trucks carrying building materials in the direction of Nablus. The soldiers ignore us entirely and do not answer our question as to who is the commander. On the other hand, they do not comment on where we are standing : right next to the carousels, next to the holding place for detainees, very close to the checking of entering cars. We felt no limitation.
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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