‘Anabta, Ar-Ram, Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Wed 23.7.08, Morning
Qalqilia (Eliyahu) Passage
06:50 – Approx. 30 workers, who are employed in the seam line area, most of them in Alfei Menashe, wait for their checking. We did not stop. On our way back we entered a gardening nursery in the seam line. A worker, who lives in Qalqilia, told us that he had been waiting this morning for two hours for inspection. A few days ago he waited from seven o’clock till 09:30. It is important to stop there from time to time and monitor the passage of the workers.
Qalqilia CP
06:50 – 07:00 – Only a few vehicles on both sides. The passage is quick. We met an Israeli woman who takes Palestinian patients with permits to Israeli hospitals for treatment. She waited for her patient and told us that sometimes she waits for half an hour at Eliyahu Passage.
Azzun
The road 55 is open from both entrances to the village.
Funduk
Nadim tells that Israelis who came yesterday to fix their cars at the garages in Funduk were fined. A special unit exists for this purpose and is financed by the 1000 Sh fine that it imposes on trespassers. This imposes a further obstruction on the livelihood of the inhabitants.
Anabta
10:20 – The passage of vehicles is quick.
Jubara
10:35 – The commander of the CP, a lieutenant, opens for us the gate after a short wait. He confirms that the passage for Israelis to buy fruit and vegetables for personal consumption is free, except meat and eggs.
The Agricultural Gate 753 (The Children’s Gate)
10:35 – 10:50 – A vehicle carrying sacks of fodder for the donkeys to the solitary house near the fence system is delayed for a period of time by the soldiers, till they receive the allowance to let it through.
A young man with an agricultural permit returns from work. The soldiers look for his name in the notebook where they write down each person who enters Jubara but does not live there. He knows that if they do not erase his name from the list, he might lose his permit. So, although the soldiers promise him that they will not make problems for him, he insists that they keep searching. At last they found his name on the list.
Ar-Ram CP
10:50 – No traffic on both sides.
'Anabta CP
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'Anabta CP
The checkpoint is located south of the village of 'Anabta, at the intersection of Road 60 (leading to Nablus at the entrance to Area A), with Road (57, 557, 5576) facing west towards the Einav settlement and the checkpoint at the exit from the West Bank - Figs checkpoint. Until 2010 we used to watch the intersection and report the long columns created due to a slow inspection of the vehicles in both directions.
Oct-28-2011Anabta checkpoint 24.10.11
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'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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A-Ram
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two kilometers south of Qalandiya and 300 metres north of Neve Yaacov Junction, in Dahiyat el-Barid Quarter. Checkpoint has operated since 1991, in a Palestinian area annexed to Jerusalem in 1967. The checkpoint has been inactive since the middle of 2009.
The wall was built on the road that led to Jerusalem. Since then the situation in the town has deteriorated. Houses are abandoned and half finished, most of the businesses have closed. Severe neglect around the fence and on the streets. Those who could left. Updated January 2024
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Jubara (Kafriat)
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The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.
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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.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Azzun: Enclosed by a high fence and the gate to the village is closed
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