Beit Iba, Wed 3.12.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Tags:

Humanitarian Queue

Observers:

Nora R, Hanna P (reporting)

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Dec-3-2008

Morning

07:20 – After the turn in the direction of Nablus there is a new
barrier being built (with two gates info-icon ) .

The entrance to Beit Iba is free, there is a stream of student passing
at this hour. At the exit they are checked by magnometers. Women, men over 45,
policemen and teacher with certificates pass at the humanitarian lane.

Immediately after we arrived we were commanded to stand behind the red
line.

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.