Beit Iba, Mon 25.8.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Elisheva and Bilhah (reporting) Chana S. translating

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Aug-25-2008

Afternoon

Beit Iba,

14.20 Light flow of pedestrians, although university studies have already started.

A line of a few cars exiting Nablus.

A bus is held up for 5 minutes. The men alight and a military policeman enters and checks.

The checkpoint is quiet, without shouting.

No dog handler.

15.30 As we are about to depart, a line of pedestrians builds up, but still far from the crowded days that we knew at Beit Iba.

15.31 (also Amg’ad at the kiosk feels that there are fewer customers – but does not complain. He has enough business.)

Location Description

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.