Beit Iba, Thu 18.10.07, Morning

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Beit Iba

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Detainees

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Nora H., Biria L., Avital C. (reporting) Trans. Judith Green

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Oct-18-2007

Morning

Beit Iba

09:20 – The DCO is present, moving things along. "Broke the curfew" – 2 wanted men, 1 Israeli Bedouin who stayed in Tulkarm since before the holiday. Released after 7 minutes. The Bedouin was released after an unsuccessful application to the humanitarian hotline. He had been there for 2 hours. The wanted man was being punished, because he hadn't renewed his ID.

A separate line for women and men, but only one soldier is doing the inspection for both lines. Everyone's ID is checked, without any preference to the women, children or elderly…

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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 info-icon 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.