Jubara
Jubara, Tuesday, 11.10.05, AMObservers: Shlomit S, Ruti C, Maya S, Elinoar B (reporting)06:30-07:00The checkpoint is empty. We go up to the former “Children’s Gate”. To the 2nd lieutenant who mans the gate we convey the request of some villagers that the gate should open on time, at four and not at five or so because this postpones their evening meal on Ramadan. The officer denies their claim flatly: the gate always opens on time. He also insists that life here in Jubara is wonderful: they live in Israel (!) and make a lot of money smuggling stuff. The fact that these miserable villagers live in a cage behind locked gates, that they need a permit to invite families to a wedding or a funeral – apparently all this counts for nothing. The obtuseness, the blindness of these young people is chilling (see also separate Beit Iba report).
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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