Azzun, Jit, Qalqiliya, Thu 27.12.07, Afternoon
13:43 Qalqiliya
2 checking areas for those entering or leaving and a long line of people exiting the city and we cannot see where it ends.
The soldiers are resting and every now and again one of them remembers to motion to a car to come forward and an ID is checked and then another rest. Suddenly there is action and a soldier appears with plastic bags …they are collecting rubbish. Again a rest period. The people waiting say it is the same each day from 12.00 to 15.30. We told Tamar C., the centre, and Sari who does not really know this checkpoint. She says it is the usual pressure but that she will check.
14:08 Azun
where only small cars can get out because of the cement barriers and an ambulance passes with difficulty. One cannot call this an open passage.
At Pondok we see a Hummer at the north side with soldiers and someone who looks like a settler standing and speaking next to something which looks like a memorial to someone. A little after Pondok near the village Jit someone stands on the red house and this reminds us of an expression that mad people should get down from the roof.
Jit is not manned.
'Azzun
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Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
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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.
Anat PolakJul-17-2025Yitzhar Road, Jit Junction: traffic jam
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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Ronit Dahan-RamatiAug-31-2026Nabi Elias. The gate is closed
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