A tour of the Seam Zone and the Falamiya North checkpoint
A tour for our guest
We drove to Elkana and to Oranit to show our guest the separation fence/wall, explain the situation and answer her questions.
We took her to Habla checkpoint at 11:15 even though the gate is closed. Two female soldiers in a military vehicle. Karin asked why they were there; A. explained over the phone that the army claims it’s to catch people in Israel illegally who jump over the fence.
Eliyahu crossing: We attempted to photograph two driverless trucks. One carried pipes and the other carried trees. They waited for inspection. But the soldiers didn’t allow photographs so we drove on.
We continued to ‘Azzun. We saw no soldiers. We dropped off packages and briefly visited Z. and his wife, S. They told us about a few days last week during which the army arbitrarily closed the entrance to the town a few times for a number of hours.
Falamiya north (914)
The checkpoint opened on time, at 13:35, and closed at 13:55 after everyone had gone through. A landowner from Kafr Sur and his sons waited in a car for it to open. He and his sons had received a permit for two years. A young man with a bike said he was going to the za’atar field.
Crossing went quickly with no particular problems. Five or six tractors returned, many young men on bicycles, about ten people on foot, a donkey cart and another donkey. One car with the father and his sons, three people on foot and one tractor went through to the fields.
'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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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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Falamiya North (914)
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Falamiya North (914) Opens 3 times a day for about 40 minutes each time. This checkpoint has extremely important for all farmers in the area since the previous, Falamya checkpoint opening routine of continuously open for 12 hours has been discontinued. This took place after the separation fence was moved westward following the High Court of Justice.
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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.
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