Habla, Imatin, Nabi Ilyas
Translation: Tal H.
Nabi Eliyas 10:00
A Hebrew class was taught by Nirit. Five women and a young man took part. They practiced their vocabulary, asked each other questions and gave answers. They were amused and laughed a lot.
Imatin 10:30
A Hebrew class was taught, ten women took part. Three of them were with their little children. These sat quietly and played with pens and pencils. We spoke a bit about the English class that was given last Thursday afternoon. The girls enjoyed it a lot, as did their mothers. They were impressed with Adam who knows Arabic, even reads and writes it. After our talk we practiced reading. The newcomers participated as well. I gave out reading sheets for them to prepare for next week. Then we had a conversation using mostly familiar words, and at their request we practiced translating. The hour went by quickly.
11:30 – Yoga class, about an hour long, given by Sarah. The practice is difficult and requires physical and mental effort. Sarah very calmly and pleasantly explains and demonstrates, the women watch her and follow. We admired their flexibility and determination to carry out the exercises.
Road 55, back to Nabi Eliyas, 12:45 –
The entrance to Azzun and Izbat Tabib villages was open. Close to Izbat Tabib we noticed an army jeep driving eastbound.
Habla Checkpoint 13:00 – The gate opened 10 minutes late. A large number of people stood waiting on the Palestinian side, several vehicles and three donkey-driven carts loaded with green grass watedby the checkpoint on the other side. We wpoke with a woman from Ras Atiya who said she'd been waiting for 3 hours by the gate, since 10 a.m. She was visibly exhausted and bitter about having to wait so long. She said that because of the dry weather and lack of downfall she had to make her way from the village to the nurseries. She crossed the gate with her young son at 6:30 a.m., to load green wild grass on the cart, to fed the donkey. She has no other way of feeding it. She cannot understand why she has to wait for the gate to open.
A-Nabi Elias
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A-Nabi Elias this is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, east of Qalqilia on Road 55, north-east of Alfei Menashe colony and west of Karnei Shomron colony and the Palestinian city of Nablus. As of 2016, the village was populated by 1,458 inhabitants.
Near the village is a maqam (holy site memorializing a sanctified person) - the prophet Elisha. Until 2021 Road 55 crossed the village. Then a bypass road was paved through olive groves that were sequestered from the villagers. Consequently, the farmers were left with small olive groves that they could not access nor cultivate. Inhabitants protested against the road for weeks, supported by peace activists, but nothing helped and the road is now a given fact.
The village's main street had been a shopping center for all residents, including colonists. We even saw a Kashrut (kosher food) inspector in a butcher shop close to the falafel stand… The bypass road, according to tradesmen, has impacted their businesses and clients, while others claim that there are customers now for parking has become easier.
Alfei Menashe and Tzofim colonies nibble at the village lands from the north and south and get closer to it all the time. Colonists of Alfei Menashe have outdone themselves, sending their surplus sewage from the oxygenation pools toward a-Nabi Elias land, even reaching the houses.
The villagers are known as seekers of peace. For years there was no hostility towards Israelis. On the contrary, we were always welcomed warmly and stopped there to enjoy their delicious, inexpensive falafel.
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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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Imatin
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Imatin This village lies in the West Bank, 19 kilometers southwest of Nablus city and 23 kilometers east of the city of Qalqiliya. Its inhabitants' number 799, all members of four families from the neighboring village of Imatin. Far’ata is identified with the Biblical Far’atoun, and an archeological survey has identified findings on a timeline from the Second Iron Age until the days of the Ottoman Empire. After the Oslo Accords, the built-up area of the village was categorized as Area B, but 80% of its farmlands were classified as Area C. In 2002, settlers founded the outpost of Havat Gil’ad, which they claim is located on privately-owned land purchased by the Zar family. The Palestinians claim they own the land. The Civil Administration has issued demolition orders for all the structures in this outpost and they were declared illegal, but nothing was done about it. On February 4, 2018, the Israeli government unanimously ruled to regulate this outpost by defining it as a new settlement or by erecting a new settlement next to it. Beginning in 2012, the Palestinian Authority ruled to include Far’ata in the local council of Imatin, a larger community. For further information: http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/immatin_vp_en.pdf
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