‘Azzun, ‘Izbat Salman North checkpoint 1419, Habla Checkpoint (1393)
1473 CP is still closed. A new signpost warns about “danger for life”. Hallo! What is dangerous here?
The tractor driver arrives first. He parks, descends and sits in the shade of the tree to rest.
From the system road there arrives a tractor loaded with fragrant Za’tar sacks. The plots belonging to the three farmers are situated to the left of the system road and the checkpoint near to them, no. 1774, has been closed when it was decided to open CP no. 1473. Why can’t the crew which opens this checkpoint and continutes in the direction of Habla, open the second checkpoint on its way too?
The gate should be opened at 12:45 for a quarter of an hour. When it isn’t opened? I contact the DCO to inform them of the delay.
12:55 the military jeep arrives. A soldier takes his place at the observation post. His colleagues open the iron gate. 8 people enter, 3 come out. Within 5 minutes all have passed. The crew closes the CP and goes on its way. If the army orders would be a bit more logical, gate 1447 would now be opened in order to facilitate life for those coming from Izbat Salaman and Izbat Jal’ud. But the crew hurries to Habla. 5 minutes. This is all that is needed in order to make life easier for the Palestinians. But who cares…
Z. approaches us. He has a plot of 40 dunams but only he has a permit to reach his land. Not his wife nor his children. How can I alone process such a big plot he asks. Once permits were given to the entire family. Today only to me. I contact Walid. He asks me to tell Z. to go to the Eyal CP on Wednesday and to approach the officer there. I impart the message although I know that nobody will help him at the Eyal CP.
We leave and continue to the Habla – no. 1393 CP.
13:20 The gate is open. A tender with enormous sacks which probably contain agricultural products enters. Seeds? Fertilizer? It is not clear to us. On the Habla side men, women and a few vehicles are waiting.
8 vehicles, trucks tenders and tractors come out. Also 9 pedestrians. A tractor, a private car and two bicycle riders enter.
13:25 A student minibus from Arab A-Ramadin comes out and returns about a quarter of an hour later, without the students, on its way to Habla.
We meet our friend the owner of the herd. He and his two children lead horses. He continues on his way and his children return home to Habla on foot.
We visit the plant nursery and continue to Azun to unload many parcels in Z.’s shop.
'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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'Izbet Jal'ud / Abu Salman North (1419)
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Abu Salman is an agricultural checkpoint at the separation wall in the village of Jal'oud between the Abu Salman checkpoint and the Hablaa checkpoint. It is open only for 15 minutes twice a day and is used by farmers Abu Salman and Izbat Jal'oud to reach their lands in the seam area north of the Oranit settlement.
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Habla CP (1393)
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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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