Irtah, Jubara AM
JUBARA, Tuesday 10 August 2004 AMObservers: Maya, Lirona, Susan, Elinoar (reporting) colour=red> 06:30 — Irtah, Gate 700 Many of the Palestinian workers have already gone through on their way to jobs in Israel, but many are still inside the checkpoint despite the four checking posts that are in operation there. The Jenin area workers don’t come here anymore [recently the army barred these workers from using this checkpoint, although it is by far the easiest and most convenient for them and their Israeli employers]. Two who did manage to get through came from Silat Al-Harithiya and Al-Yanun. They, and their Israeli employer, complained to us about the Via Dolorosa that was their lot as they travelled from checkpoint to checkpoint, until they finally managed to cross into Israel here Jubara checkpoint is changing daily, some might say it was improving. On our way back from Beit Iba [this group went from Jubara to Beit Iba to continue its observations – see the report for that checkpoint under the Nablus area ] we met a woman carrying a barefoot toddler in her arms. She is a Tulkarm woman married to an Israeli Arab from Taibeh; the soldiers have refused to let her through until she returns to Tulkarm and brings her marriage certificate. Imploring them didn’t help at all – without the marriage certificate it’s forbidden for her to pass through the checkpoint.
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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