‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Wed 10.9.08, Afternoon
14.20 Area of Qalqiliya
We entered a path through one of the fields (El Paradiso) and arrived at the gate of the fence. This gate is opened three times a day, for one hour, each time. The opening hours are marked on the gate. This gate serves the
inhabitants of occupied Habla. This is their land, and source of income.
We entered the next field and asked how do they reach their fields
and also from where they come. The young man, we asked, told us that he
lives in Qalqiliya, and that he has a special permit which enables him to drive from the checkpoint till the field. He showed me the permit which enables him to travel only on the specific stretch of road – to work and back
The main road (55) is only for the Jews and for those Arabs who have the special permit.
We continued on our way. We stopped at a wall behind which we saw the lower road, which passes under the main road on which we were, meant for the Palestinians, leading from Habla to Qalqiliya.
Checkpoint Qalqiliya is practically empty. (The town has 45.000 residents – as many as the town of Tiberias) yet no one is coming or going.
We stopped asking why. The soldiers are not interested. We continue on our way.
Azun – is open Also here we saw a lower road for the Palestinians which stretches from Azun through to Arras and Tulkarm.
16.15 Anabta
Hardly any traffic. Cars are delayed beside the tower. Tami goes to find out what is happening. The driver says that the woman in the car is ill and that the soldier does not allow her through.
Tami goes up to the soldier and asks if he heard about what happened two days earlier in Huwwara – when a soldier did not let a pregnant women through to the hospital, and the baby died.
His answer – No, he had not heard. Tami comes to take the phone and when she returns, the soldiers are running towards her in panic: Don’t come any closer. You are not allowed to be here. Stay beside your car. Yet when the see Tami phoning the commanders, they let the car through immediately …
Again no traffic, and we leave in the direction of Jubara and Arras.
On the way from Anabta close to Jubara, we can see (from the South) Checkpoint Arras and the road which leads from there, under the main road on which we were, to Tulkarm.
We continue on the main road. We pass through the Checkpoint Hateanim till we reach the gate of Jubara.
A soldier comes to open the gate and holds a flag of “Women in Blue and White” (so that we shall see and worry).
17.00 Arras
Completely empty. A soldier asks Tami “Why weren’t you here last week?”
He remembers us from the previous times we had been there, and is friendly. After a conversation about the weather and the view, we leave.
Alina, journalist visitor is impressed by the sight of the low roads for the Palestinians, and the impressive large roads built for the Jews. It is indeed impressive.
'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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