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Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Michal P.,Edna K.,Shera H.,Bat Sheva M.,Aurit B.,Deborah L.
Feb-04-2004
| Afternoon

Beit Iba, Hawwara 4/2/2004 Watchers: Michal P., Edna K., Shera H., Bat Sheva M., Aurit B., Deborah L., 2 guests Beit Iba and Hawware were both rather quiet with only about 20% of the usual movement. There were detainees at both places that were held up anywhere from a half hour to as much as 3 hours. They were men under 35. Part of the group stayed at Beit Iba the whole time and part moved on to Hawwara. The most noteworthy event was a flying checkpoint just outside of Al Pondok on route 55 that we passed on our way to Beit Iba. This was at about 1:30. Buses were stopped, the people taken out to have their IDs checked and some were detained for as long as 5 hours. The soldiers told us they had been warned that 3 “terrorists” had set out from Scham to Ramallah. Most of the soldiers were cordial. One however told Michal that a niece of his was killed in a suicide bombing, and as far as he was concerned the detainees could wait forever.At Hawwara 3 taxi drivers had their taxis, keys and IDs taken by the soldiers for being in the wrong place. I asked Estie to check on them today and to pass on the information to the group going out today, Thursday.We made a few calls to the DCO (Yuval) about people who had to have tests at the hospital or people who waited for over 3 hours. They were eventually released but so was everyone, sooner or later. We left Hawwara at about 4:15 and Beit Iba at 5:00.

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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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