Jubara & Anabta
Jubara & Anabta, Tuesday AM, 4 April 2006Observers: Shlomit S., Elinoar B. (reporting)Guest: MashaJubara06:00-07:00 – Closure is in effect [i.e. blanket passage restriction regardless of permits]; hardly any people or vehicles on either end of the checkpoint. Up at Gate 753 the checkpoint is manned but only the school buses pass today. Down in the valley we see the Ar-Ras roadblock, not crowded at this time.Anabta08:30-09:30 – On our way back from Beit Iba we stop at Anabta checkpoint. Dozens of vehicles as well as pedestrians are waiting on both sides. People we talk to are angry and depressed. They report that exit of under-thirty-year-olds is prohibited. As we talk the soldiers manning the checkpoint suddenly pack up and prepare to leave. Now everybody can pass freely. People seem to be amused, including the soldiers themselves. Do we need another proof that this is just harassment and punitive?
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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