Nablus checkpoints
Nablus checkpoints, 11.7.2006, Tuesday 11.7.2006.Observers: Amit I. B. Yael S. (reportingNatanya translating.15.50 Beit Iba. Limitations. Suspected persons who appear in the lists, young men between the ages of 16-25, thorough checking in both directions. Waiting periods. Cars leaving Nablus an hour.Cars entering 40 minutes. Pedestrians leaving Nablus two hours.No waiting period for those entering Nablus. The enclosure is full of people and not only the young.The soldiers explain that the turnstiles have been fixed and therefore many people were waiting some of whom tried to slip past and therefore were detained.The true reason for the delay is that the Military police are new to the job and it takes them time to carry out the checking. They take the ids from a group and in the meantime send them to the enclosure and when they are finished with the checking free them. That is added to those who are waiting for other reasons. 16.40 We left because we heard that the situation at Jit was bad.Checkpoint Jit. 16.50 15 cars in the direction of Qalqiliya.17.00 The number of cars waiting has increaded to 20. Three soldiers at the checkpoint with one communication instrument. They are checking a group of pedestrians entering Jit while the line of cars waits. The soldiers calls out the name of the person being checked to the soldier with the communication and he begins to spell out the name into the instrument. The line lengthens. The soldiers are apathetic. A car is detained at the side, caught trying to use a side road. 17.20 We telephone Raz at the centre who said he would try to speed things up.As usual at the crossroads of Jit we get the usual quota of insults from passing settlers.And at the end we also received a ticket because the car had been standing on the side of the road.
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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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