Jubara, Anabta
Jubara, Anabta, Monday, 25.7.2005, PMObservers: Yona A., Tsiona Sh., Dorit H. (reporting)Jubara15:00 – 6 men and 2 women are detained at the entrance. They return from work and want to go home. They say: “today is a special day”. Usually they are kept for half an hour but today they are detained for 3 hours (!) The soldiers claim that 3 hours haven’t passed yet. At the end of the argument with us, the DCO representative admits that “the computer is stuck from the morning” and this is the reason for the delay. They are waiting for the computer to start operating. We decide to wait too. 15:40 – Without any apparent reason (the computer is still stuck), the soldiers return the ID cards and release the people. We leave. AnabtaWe drive slowly to the direction of the CP. It is almost empty: no pedestrians and no detainees, an ambulance and a bus pass through. We decide to drive further to Beit Iba. A police car, parking at the junction, stops us, looks at the MachsomWatch sign, and asks for license and ID cards. He returns them to us with a report for not belting the security belt in the rear seat. “Law must be kept here too!”
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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