Irtah-Jubara AM
IRTAH and JUBARA, Tuesday 24 August 2004 AMObservers: Maya, Ruthie, Iris, Elinoar (reporting) colour=red>At 06:30, the gate had only just been opened [this is a checkpoint through which hundreds of Palestinians pass daily en route to employment in Israel] . It was as if we’d gone back to the bad old days before the big closure. The deputy-commander of the checkpoint explained that a “Safari vehicle was late”, whatever that might have meant. Hundreds of people going through were moving rather slowly, although five checking stations were in operation.The women’s line was really excruciatingly slow. Apparently the Military Police-woman had all the time in the world. We were told that the women had “pushed”, that was why she was working so slowly. Whom did they push? One another. The staff-sergeant denied this. [This shift continued its observations at the Beit Iba checkpoint — see separate report under the Nablus region.]
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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