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‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jit, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Wed 16.7.08, Afternoon

Tags: Detainees
Observers: Sarah P., Tammie C., a guest from America and Nadim, Natanya translating.
Jul-16-2008
| Afternoon

14.25 We got close to the checkpoint at Qalqiliya and were there for some minutes.
 
The parking lot was full and there was much traffic but cars going into the city moved slowly.

Azun was open and Jie was open and lonely.
 
At Anabta at 16.20 Young soldiers are present and the checker at the entrance greets us and with that his job ended. The line of those entering was not long and a taxi full of women and children waited for their IDs to be checked.
 
An attempt to communicate with the unit failed (the continuation from Ar-Ras) a captain G. (I hope that is his name)  knew nothing of Machsomwatch and wanted to know more  but a soldier with a very definite opinion interfered,  complained that we were interfering with their work and showed us the letter from the Ariel police of 2004 forbidding us to stand at the checkpoint. I did not want to go on with this stupid conversation especially as he claimed that I was endangering his life as the man who was supposed to guard him was chatting with me and not doing his job.


16:50 The lower gate to Jubara is open. At the children's gate is a detainee and 21 cars. The soldiers are new and rather confused.
 

17:20 Ar-Ras  The commander, A.  and three soldiers are checking calmly the cars entering. Sarah speaks to the captain and another soldier who are very convinced of the importance of the inner checkpoints. Maybe a few study days would help. Here also I did not manage to contact the unit or the brigade about the car that was detained. One hopes that they had already passed.


We went back along the wonderful way past Azun and Qalqiiya.

  • '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.  
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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.

       

  • 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).

  • 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.  
  • 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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