‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jit, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Mon 19.11.07, Morning
Ras-Atiah. 6.30
The road is empty at the crossroads of Alfei Menash up to the checkpoint. The latter is still closed. The soldiers are getting organised. Workers are waiting on the other side of the fence but the gates on both sides are closed so that one cannot get near the checkpoint itself.
6.40
A car with a resident of Ras Tirah who has lands on the other side comes up. It seems that the checkpoint is often opened late and they are used to it. He says that the present soldiers are decent but that sometimes there are border police who harass them. For example there is especially one of the women soldiers who did not want to let his pregnant wife through without going pass the x-ray machine and she had to go to Ras Tirah ( 5 minutes away) And there through Qalqiliya. Ronnie gave her her phone number so as to be in touch should this happen again.
6.45
The checkpoint opens and 20 workers go to be checked.
6.55
Most of the workers have gone through. A van arrives from Ras Atiah and everyone including the driver gets out at the side of the road and go through the pedestrian lane and 10 minutes later comes back and then the car is checked. From the direction of Ras Tirah into the West Bank they do not go through the x-ray device and only IDs and parcels are checked.
Eliyahu passage 7.20
Here there is such an outstanding example of the lack of equality between the citizens of the state. A long line of cars most of them Israeli wait while the cars of the settlers go through with no checking. And who knows who is sitting in these cars. A long line of workers wait and it is lucky that there is no rain.
Qalqiliya 7.25
20 cars leaving the city with few checks only questions. 10 minutes to a car. Because of the line is takes 20 minutes to pass. A volunteer of the "envelope" who was a master sergeant at camp 80 with the appropriate moustache checks the cars together with a border policeman in an efficient way. Now and again a car is stopped so as to write down the number of the ID but it is done quickly. Female soldiers stand and chat and do nothing to help. There is no line at the end.
Azzun 8.00
No checkpoint.
Checkpoint of Jit 8.15
No checkpoint.
Anabta 9.30
At Beit Iba we were told that there are many problems here for the last few days and that today they waited an hour to leave Tulkarm. When we arrived there were 30-40 cars and we could not see the end of the line. At the entrance no line.
There are many captains there, a captain and two sergeants. The captain comes up and asks who we are and as soon as he heard who we were shouted to his friends to close the checkpoint. When he saw that we were beginning to phone he shouted to the soldiers to start passing people through. After 5 minutes only 10 cars were left and at 9.42 none at all.
9.50
The captain disappears and the usual soldiers remain. It seems to be a change of shift and the checkpoint closed for five minutes and 15 cars arrived. Random checking.
10.07
7 cars.
Jubara and the childrens' gate 10.30
3 illegal workers whom we saw free when we went back to A-Ras.
A-ras
3 cars at the exit and random checking. Reserve soldiers and the area is quiet.
'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-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)
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A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)
On Tulkarm-Qalqiliya road (574), east of Hirbet Jubara. tia checkpoint is dedicated to residents traveling to and from Tulkarm, so they should not cross apartheid road 557 (only permissible for settlers).
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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.
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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.
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