Beit Iba, Wed 31.12.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Tami Cohen, Dalia Golomb; Guest: A student; Natanya translating

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Dec-31-2008

Afternoon

16.00 Beit Iba.
No line of cars at the entrance and at the exit the cars pass swiftly. The commander, M. speak to us pleasantly but is disappointing in his attitude towards the Palestinians. The entrance lane to the pedestrian checkpoint is flooded but the commander is not prepared to let them go through the exit lane which is dry. (Last week there was a commander who really hated us but behaved well towards the Palestinians and did let them go through the dry lane). The prescence of the DCO representative is not felt at all. A bus is checked and passed quickly. The cars entering do not have to show their licenses but those leaving do. They are checked and go through.
16.45 We leave.

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.