Jubara & surroundings
Jubara & surroundings, Tuesday, 14.3.06, AMObservers: Shlomit S, Ruti C.Transcribed by Elinoar B. (following an oral report by phone).08:30-09:00IrtahDeserted; “closure” is in effect [restricting passage according to geographic locales].JubaraPractically deserted. The soldiers refrain from talking to the observers. Ar-Ras Going down to the now permanent “rolling” roadblock near Ar-Ras (visible from the Schoolchildren’s Gate) through the Tulkarm end presented no problem, nobody checked any lists. The roadblock itself, empty at first, filled quickly due to thorough checking-out, bordering on harassment. A university lecturer was told to lift his coat, then his shirt, “Higher! higher!” The notorious “Yallah! Yallah!” cries were abundant. [Arabic, “Move it!” — one of the few Arabic phrases that’s been adopted by Hebrew slang]The soldiers tried to chase away the observers (but not to make them wear flak jackets).On the way to Beit Iba the roads were rather empty. [See separate report under Nablus.]
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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