Eyal Crossing, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Thu 29.7.10, Afternoon
Translator: Charles K.
15:25 On the way to Funduq we glanced at the Habla agricultural gate. No one was waiting.
15:33 Eliyahu crossing/Gate 109
From the car we saw about five Palestinians, apparently a family, next to the inspection facility. Some seem to have already been checked.
15:55 Funduq
We came here to deliver entry permits to Israel to the five participants from Funduq in the film, “Area C,” to be shown tomorrow. We were delayed somewhat coordinating, because for some reason one of the five permits hadn’t arrived. Together with the willing DCO representative, he’ll receive the permit at the Qalqilya DCO this evening. God willing.
16:40 Eliyahu crossing/Gate 109
Right next to us at the crossing stood a Palestinian couple and a soldier speaking on a walkie-talkie, apparently about them. We didn’t think it appropriate to intervene.
16:45 Another glance, this time at the security road with its many fences on the way to Ras Atiya and Ras Atira. In addition to the forbidding fence alongside the road, a fence of concertina wire has been added 10-20 meters north of it, robbing more of the area’s pasture and land. A violent act against the locality, not to mention its effects on the inhabitants of the village imprisoned within.
16:50 Habla agricultural gate
The new canopy where people wait is empty and burning in the sun. About 30 people sought shade on the ground behind it, particularly behind the well-house. Today, for some reason, the soldiers preferred that people cross one by one, and not in fives…an arbitrary decision, as was the decision to refuse entry to a Palestinian resident of Habla through the agricultural gate because his permit specifies entry via 109. I spoke with the DCO representative, who promised to talk to the commander, but the man, annoyed, had already.
17:40 Eyal crossing
A fair number of people went through, but without any noticeable problems.
Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing
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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Zufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone. This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone." It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.
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Eyal Checkpoint / Crossing
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Eyal Checkpoint is intended for pedestrians and Palestinians only. This is the main barrier for workers to cross from the center of the West Bank. Workers with a work permit to enter Israel can pass through it for trade, medicine, and visiting prisoners. The checkpoint was built on the Green Line north of Qalqilya in the separation barrier that surrounds the city. The checkpoint began operating in 2004 by the military. Opening hours on weekdays from 04:00 to 19:00. We started holding shifts there in 2007. We arrived at the checkpoint before it opened at 4 in the morning. We reported on the difficult conditions and the long and cramped queues of workers who must continue their journey by commuting to work throughout Israel. At the end of June 2009, the checkpoint was operated by a civil security company, The transit time has been gradually shortened, today it is faster, but the Palestinians still have to arrive very early to make it to the transportation. Usually, about 15,000 people pass through.
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Habla
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Habla CP (1393)
The Habla checkpoint (1393) was established on the lands of the residents of Qalqilya, on the short road that
connected it for centuries to the nearby town of Habla. The separation barrier intersects this road twice and cut off the residents of Qalqilya from their lands in the seam zone.(between the fence and the green line).
There is a passage under Road 55 that connects Qalqilya to the sabotage This agricultural barrier is used by the farmers and nursery owners established along Road 55 from the Green Line and on both sides of the kurkar road leading to the checkpoint.
This agricultural checkpoint serves the residents of Arab a-Ramadin al-Janoubi (detached from the West Bank), who pass through it to the West Bank and back to their homes. The opening hours (3 times a day) of this agricultural checkpoint are longer than usual, about an hour (recently shortened to 45 minutes), and are coordinated with the transportation hours of a-Ramadin children studying in the occupied in the West Bank.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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Ras 'Atiya
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The checkpoint is presently on the Separation Barrier roadway, manned and open 12 hours a day, from 6:30 to 18:30. West of it is the large Seam Line village whose school is attended by children from the nearby villages east of the Barrier and many of whose inhabitants have permits to work in Israel. How long this checkpoint will remain in place is unknown, since construction of the Separation Wall, just by the settlement of Alfe Menashe, east of the present Separation Barrier, is endless, as is the creation of a new road and, obviously, a new checkpoint.
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