Beit Iba

Place:

Beit Iba

Jit Junction

Observers:

Rachel B.,Hannah C.,Pitchiah A.

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Mar-15-2005

Afternoon

BEIT IBA, Tuesday 15 March 2005 PMObservers: Rachel B., Hannah C., Pitchiah A. (reporting)colour=red>14:00 – There were no unannounced roadblocks on the way to Beit Iba. 14:25 – A group of reserve soldiers were doing their job with (relatively) the least possible damage they could. Only young men were checked, other men ( not in the "forbidden" 16 to 30 age-group) and the women went through without being checked. There were three people in the detention shed – among them two Israeli Arabs who had been visiting Nablus without permission; according to the commander, they were now waiting for the [Israeli] police to deal with them. One of the detainees info-icon claimed that he need to get to a place where he could take a particular medicine as soon as possible, otherwise he would have to be hospitalized. The commander promised us that, if the police didn't turn up within a certain time, they would release him. If we returned at 17:00, he said, they would no longer be detained.15:00- Shavei ShomronThere were no problems here. 15:10 – Jit Junction There was an unannounced roadblock here. 15:15 – Sarra checkpointThis is a dying checkpoint, the operative substitute being the checkpoint at Tell. Both junctions – according to the checkpoint commander at the junction – belong to the inner Nablus region and do not really allow of exit from the area. We were not permitted to enter the village of Sarra. 16:00 – We returned to Beit Iba. On the way to the checkpoint, a Palestinian told us that he was favorably surprised by the reservists presently manning the checkpoint. Tomorrow a group of conscripts is scheduled to take over. The detention shed was already empty.16:30 – We left.

Location Description

Jit Junction checkpoint

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The checkpoint is located on Route 60 near at the junction with Route 55, near the village of Jit. There was a checkpoint for vehicles passing between the north and south of the West Bank, which was abolished towards 2010. Since then, surprise checkpoints have been set up there from time to time with a police or Border Police vehicle, and vehicles and their passengers are inspected.

May-14-2014

Yehudith Levin

14.05.14 Jit junction צומת ג'ית

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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.