Beit Iba, Shave Shomron, Tue 24.2.09, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Shave Shomron

Observers:

Yael S., Miriam R., Zahava G. (reporting); Natanya translating

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Feb-24-2009

Afternoon

Beit Iba

16.15 No cars at the entrance to Nablus, few pedestrians and no detainees info-icon .An innovation: Soldiers without helmets. Here too there are Yeshiva soldiers but the commander is not a yeshiva graduate. This is their first day at the checkpoint and we hear the DCO representative briefing their commander. He explains to him that only on Saturdays are Israeli cars allowed into Nablus. And truly we saw that only Israeli cars were sent back. Palestinian cars went through without being checked.The pedestrian line also flows and there are no more than 10 in a line. Cars leaving Nablus are checked and there was a delay of about 25 minutes to go through. In the humanitarian lane IDs and parcels were checked.

Shave Shomron

17.20 The checkpoint was manned but cars were not stopped and traffic flowed in both directions.

Location Description

Shave Shomron

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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

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.