‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jit, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Tue 15.7.08, Morning
06:30 – At Eliyahu Passage tens of workers are waiting to enter in order to work in the Jewish settlements.
Qalqiliya
06:35 – When we arrive there are no cars waiting in any of the directions. However, even before we get close to the checkpoint, a taxi driver approaches us and says that yesterday when the MachsomWatch shift arrived, the soldiers started to slow the traffic. It seemed to him that the soldiers did it on purpose because MachsomWatch was there. We come closer to the inspection post making sure that we stand about 10 meters away from there, and, as a matter of fact, not long after that (at about 06:45) there is already a long line of cars waiting to leave Qalqiliya. A bus that comes close to the post stops and its driver goes to the soldiers with a package of ID cards in his hand. The passengers are told to get off the bus. All other cars have to wait after the bus until the inspection of the passengers is over.
We distance ourselves from there and the soldiers start to let cars pass making do with a quick glance inside.
Azzun
07:02 – We leave the place and while driving report to G. at the IDF Humanitarian Center about the soldiers' conduct.
10:10 – On our way back we pass through Qalqiliya checkpoint again and we see a long line of cars dragging along at the entrance to the city.
Azzun
07:10 – The exit to road 55 is open.
07:22 – The checkpoint at Jit junction in the southward direction of road 60 is manned, but in every direction of the junction there are some cars waiting.
Anabta
08:47 – There are no lines at all. Although the vehicles that come from each direction slow down, there is no inspection of ID cards or other documents.
Ar-Ras
09:20 – Here, too, there are no lines. Cars that go into Tulkarm are not checked, while those that leave the city are.
'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.
Anat PolakJul-17-2025Yitzhar Road, Jit Junction: traffic jam
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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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