‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Mon 12.11.07, Morning
Eliyahu Passage
06:30 – There is a very long line of Palestinians who enter Israel for work and, in addition, a long line of cars with Israeli licence plates that enter Israel.
Qalqiliya
06:35 – There is no line at the entrance to Qalqiliya. Israeli cars stop and the drivers show an entrance permit while Palestinian cars enter without any inspection. At the exit from the city, there is a line of about 12 cars as well as a bus, standing on the roadside, whose passengers are standing next to it, waiting for the soldier to copy their ID cards numbers… Two additional soldiers are checking outgoing cars, at times asking to see documents and glancing at the trunk and at times gesturing them to pass. Palestinians pass without any inspection, which makes the meticulous documents listing seem strange.
The children who go to school in Kafr Qasim and in Jaljuliya pass the checkpoint and get on their bus.
06:55 – The bus we have watching for 20 minutes (we didn't see it when it arrived) is released. At the moment, there are only 2 cars on the way out of the city.
07:00 – We leave
Azzun
The entrance to Azzun is blocked by concrete cubes. A Hummer is parked on the roadside and soldiers stand on the road and let the pedestrians pass.
Anabta
08:55 – The red sign announcing that we enter a Palestinian territory forbidding Israelis to enter the area is most conspicuous, but Israeli Arabs are allowed to enter without any restrictions, and they do pass without interruption both for trading purposes and for family visits, which mixed families residing in Nablus and the surrounding area are unable to do.
There is no line at the entrance but at the exit some 19 cars are waiting in line due to the soldiers' interrupted inspection. When the line gets too long to see its end, the soldiers let them pass without inspection.
The taxi drivers are happy because no one has tried to send them away in the last couple of days.
09:20 – We leave.
Jubara
09:30 – We are greeted by the soldiers who ask us not to forget to close the gate to Jubara after we pass.
At the Schoolchildren Gate (or is it the Flower Gate? What is the accepted name?) The soldiers check 3 "illegals" [in Israel without a residence permit] who reside in Tulkarm. One of them is a crippled youth who returns from Tayibe where he tried to do business. Another young man, also limping, was wounded in Tayibe (confirmed in writing) and a dumb woman who resides in Tulkarm but most of her family lives in Tayibe and she went to visit them. The three of them are checked over the communication system and sent home to Tulkarm in a "Jubara taxi".
Ar-Ras
09:40 – Very few cars in both directions. Those that come from Qalqiliya are not checked at all and the cars coming from Tulkarm are briefly glanced at.
10:00 – We leave, happy not to have encountered the "Blue and White" women today [The Blue and White women are right wing activists].
'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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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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