Jit, Beit Iba
Jit, Beit Iba, Thursday AM 3.8.2006, Observers: Dalia W. Nurit W..l. (reporting)Natanya translating. Summary. The roads are empty and there is little movement at the checkpoint. The story of “William Tell.” 7.20 Crossroads of Jit. Empty. One car is checked and also at the crossroads of Shave Shomron. Beit Iba. 7.30 The checkpoint is almost empty and both exit and entrance have very few people or cars. The time of checking is reasonable. 16-30 years of age not allowed to leave. The captain, A. and his soldiers receive us friendly and are open to discussion. We ask and are told that before there was also not much movement. It is obvious that less people are coming to the checkpoint. It is filthy around the checkpoint and we ask why this is not cleaned up. The answer is that it is cleaned (when?). 8.10 Young boys try to slip through the checkpoint in cars. The oldest is 17and they are sent to the enclosure which is surrounded by barbed wire. They are not surprised or scared and it seems they have no permits. 8.45 A man who speaks Hebrew approaches us. He tells us excitedly that he works in Israel and that his son was detained a week previously on Wednesday between Deir A-Sharaf and Nablus (Shave Shomron). He was beaten and afterwards the soldiers played “William Tell” with him. They put a glass on his head and threatened to shoot at it. He added:: I educated him to believe that there are good people in Israel, but I cannot tell him so now. I do not want him to be a Shahid. I want to take details but he is scared that this will rebound on himself or on his family. I try to explain to him that he must complain but he will not even give me his phone number. We give him the booklet of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and our phone number and tried to persuade him to do something about what happened. 9.00 The commander promises to do his best to free the young men soon and we leave.
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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