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Irtah AM

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Lirona,Mickey,Susan,Elinoar
Jul-20-2004
| Morning

IRTAH, Tuesday 20 July 2004Observers: Lirona, Mickey, Susan, a guest, Elinoar (reporting) colour = red>A fairly quiet morning 06:30 — Irtah, Gate 700Hundreds of workers had already gone through [to employment in Israel].There was only one complaint: as of tomorrow, people from the Jenin area will have to go through the Barta’a checkpoint. According to them, this means travelling 100 extra kilometres. From the map, it is not so clear why this should be, perhaps it is because of roads barred [by the Israel army] by boulder-blocks and checkpoints. We shall try to find out. This shift went on to observe at the Beit Iba checkpoint (please see the relevant report under the Nablus area)

  • 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.  
      Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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      Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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