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Place: Beit Iba
Observers: yardena,shelley,dalia
May-06-2004
| Afternoon

JUBARA, Thursday 6 May 2004 PMObservers: Yardena, Shelley and Dalia colour = red>Construction [of a new “terminal”] continues on the new monster at the checkpoint – the levels of noise and dust are unchanged.On our arrival, we find a single detainee – a Palestinian returning from a three-month period working in Israel without papers. Operations at the checkpoint were conducted without unnecessary delays. Cars went through after painstaking checks (there seemed to be an alert [about an impending terrorist attack]), and people were allowed over on the basis of their permits.The soldiers were pleasant and reasonable (and they smiled, too!)The matter of the detainee was transferred to the army’s “humanitarian” centre and the soldiers told us that the man had to be identified there, and so the process wasn’t over. We phoned the centre, and K. of the DCO [District Co-ordinating Office — the section of the army that attends to civilian matters] . Both promised to help. And, indeed, at 13:45, an hour-and-a- half after we arrived (according to the soldiers’ version) and four hours after the detainee’s arrival (as he maintained) he was able to go on his way – to Beit Iba and Nablus.We witnessed an unusual incident this time: the soldiers stopped an Israeli car (bearing an Israeli flag) for checks. The driver was very angry, and refused to present his ID card. Things started to heat up. Ultimately, the driver drove off, and the soldier remarked to us: “There was something suspicious here”.

  • 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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