Beit Iba, Jit, Tue 30.9.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Jit Junction

Observers:

Dafna B. Nur B. (reporting); Uri A. (guest); Natanya translating.

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Sep-30-2008

Afternoon

14.40 Jit is open.
14.50 Beit Iba. There is no representative of the DCO. Few pedestrians. One line for men and the other for women and the elderly. Because of the holiday only those leaving Nablus are checked. IDs are checked. People are checked by the metal detecting device, bags are given for inspection, the men stop next to us to put on their belts and watches. Israeli Palestinians are allowed to enter to visit relatives during the holiday.

Few cars and one lane to enter the city, two to exit. Permits are checked and IDs. In cars Palestinian Israelis are allowed to enter Nablus without a permit, residents of the West Bank are sent back.

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.