Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Huwwara, Jit, Thu 10.2.11, Afternoon
Natanya translating
A security incident in the area of Habla.
13.50The gates are closed. There are no soldiers in the area. From the direction of the village 2 buses with pupils wait. It is cold and rainy and grey. Those who are sitting in the shelter say that the gates did not open at 13.00. Some of them have lit a fire. We phone the DCO and hear that there has been a security situation and the soldiers were sent to deal with it. We explain the situation at the gate and are told that they are aware of the situation. Only when the situation has been resolved will the gates be opened. We phone the Humanitarian centre. They had heard about the situation from a woman in the bus. We are passed over to the Centre but they have nothing new to tell us. No one is prepared to say when the gate will be opened
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14.30A Hummer passes on the patrol road but does not stop. Rumors tell of an incident at the entrance to the nursery of Al Haruf (the first that is met on the way of those going in the direction of Israel. 3 army vehicles and a number of soldiers around them. Because of the rain and the fog on the car windows it is hard to see what is happening and it seems that there is a bound man sitting on the ground with his back to the army vehicles. Not very successful attempts were make to photograph the army vehicles on the other side of the nursery.
14.50We go back to Habla. Some of the Palestinians have despaired and have begun a journey on foot to the Eliyahu crossing and from there will go with a taxi through Qalqiliya and Habla. Also the buses with the children have gone through Qalqiliya. Those who remain light fires. We go back to the incident at the nursery. Only a lone jeep has remained but the gates of Habla do not open and those at the Centre answer politely that there is nothing new to report
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15.00The Eiliyahu crossing some lone cars in all directions. We go to Huwwara and meet a General Security Services prohibited.
At Git junction there has been an accident between an army vehicle and a Palestinian vehicle. Police and ambulances are present.
15.40 Huwwaracheckpoint. No soldiers to be seen. A few cars in both directions. In the village we meet M. who is General Security Services prohibited. He has to sign some forms.
Huwwara village. At the falafel store where we speak to M. who worked for many years in Israel and speaks Hebrew we are approached buy Ramzi. who tells us that the day before yesterday he and his brother went through at the Huwwara checkpoint in their car to Nablus and a border policeman stopped them and hit his brother, shouting, “Why are you looking at me . Why do you not know Hebrew. “ We gave him the card of Machsomwatch in the hopes that he can be helped.
Armed with falafel and knafe we go to our car and a procession with Salem Faid accompanied by Israelis guards close to him passes us on the way to Nablus. Is this the reason that there are no soldiers at the checkpoint?
After all yesterday and the day before the checkpoint was manned. And maybe at last IDF has decided to take down this unnecessary checkpoint.
16.35We go back to Habla to see what is happening since we left. We go through Einabus, Jamma'im and Deir Istiya to road 55 which returns us to Habla. It seems that because of the rain the road is almost empty of cars and along the way the almond trees are in blossom amongst the olive trees.
17.30 The Eliyahu crossing.We pass quickly through the route of the settlers and enter Habla. The passage is open. There is no one waiting there. We hear from the soldiers about the incident which ended only at 16.50 and then the gate was open. The reason 3 Palestinians jumped over the fence and the soldiers were conducting a search. We try to speak to the soldier but the military …….shut them up.
There were people especially older people who had been waiting from 13.00
18.00 we leave Habla and go back to Kfar Saba.
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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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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.
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Huwwara
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The Huwwara checkpoint is an internal checkpoint south of the city of Nablus, at the intersection of Roads 60 and 5077 (between the settlements of Bracha and Itamar). This checkpoint was one of the four permanent checkpoints that closed on Nablus (Beit Furik and Awarta checkpoints to the east and the Beit Iba checkpoint to the west). It was a pedestrian-only barrier. As MachsomWatch volunteers, we watched therre since 2001 two shifts a day - morning and noon, the thousands of Palestinians leaving Nablus and waiting for hours in queues to reach anywhere else in the West Bank, from the other side of the checkpoint the destination could only be reached by public transport. In early June 2009, as part of the easing of Palestinian traffic in the West Bank, the checkpoint was opened to vehicular traffic. The passage was free, with occasional military presence in the guard tower. Also, there were vehicle inspections from time to time. Since the massacre on 7.10.2023, the checkpoint has been closed to Palestinians.
On February 26, 2023, about 400 settlers attacked the town's residents for 5 hours and set fire to property, such as houses and cars. Disturbances occurred in response to a shooting of two Jewish residents of Har Bracha by a Palestinian Terrorist. The soldiers stationed in the town did not prevent the arson and rescued Palestinian families from their homes only after they were set on fire. No one was punished and Finance Minister Smotrich stated that "the State of Israel should wipe out Hawara." Left and center organizations organized solidarity demonstrations and support actions for the residents of Hawara.Hawara continued to be in the headlines in all the months that followed: more pogroms by the settlers, attacks by Palestinians and a massive presence of the army in the town. It amounted to a de facto curfew of commerce and life in the center of the city. On October 5, 2023, MK Zvi established a Sukkah in the center of Hawara and hundreds of settlers backed the army blocked the main road and held prayers in the heart of the town all night and the next day. On Saturday, October 7, 23 The "Swords of Iron" war began with an attack by Hamas on settlements surrounding Gaza in the face of a poor presence of the IDF. Much criticism has been made of the withdrawal of military forces from the area surrounding Gaza and their placement in the West Bank, and in the Hawara and Samaria region in particular, as a shield for the settlers who were taking over and rioting.
On November 12, 2023, the first section of the Hawara bypass road intended for Israeli traffic only was opened. In this way, the settlers can bypass the road that goes through the center of Hawara, which is the main artery for traffic from the Nablus area to Ramallah and the south of the West Bank. For the construction of the road, the Civil Administration expropriated 406 dunams of private land belonging to Palestinians from the nearby villages. The settlers are not satisfied with this at the moment, and demand to also travel through Hawara itself in order to demonstrate presence and control.(updated November 2023)
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Jit Junction
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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.
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