Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Monday, 27.3.2006, AMObservers: Naomi L. Roni S. both reporting.Translator:Natanya 8.05 On the way to Beit Iba, there is a rolling checkpoint at the crossroads 60/57. The cars pass quickly enough. The drivers are asked to leave their cars and show their IDs but the cars are not checked. In about 15 minutes nine cars pass. At the entrance to Nablus, there are a few cars and they pass quickly. At the exit there is a longer line. The soldiers in the pedestrian lane are polite, the checking is quick and there are no lines nor detainees nor Palestinians who are not allowed to pass. The taxi drivers tell us that they get the permits from the Palestinian DCO but only for three days so that they can they enter Nablus for repairs. A driver who had left his car in Nablus to be fixed could not return through Beit Iba and only through Al Badhan. 9.15 At the crossroads 60/57 there is still a checkpoint but no cars.
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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