‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Qalqiliya, Tue 25.3.08, Morning
Qalqiliya
06:50-07:10 – No queues. Lieutenant Y [Yaniv] introduces himself amiably. Vehicles come in and out without checking. A young man loitering with the taxi drivers gives vent to his anger. Five minutes before our arrival, he says, 2 army vehicles entered the city "to make arrests". They shoot. Just like that. "They kill, kill, men, children, they don't care." He himself is waiting outside "so as not to be killed".
Azzun
The entrance from Rd 55 is still blocked. No army vehicles.
Anabta08:45-09:10 (back from Beit Iba) –
The line of vehicles coming out of the city seems long, but the passage is fairly quick. We timed 21 cars in 6 minutes. A pedestrian moves towards the checkpoint. "yoohoo! Move back! Move back!" The young man moves back then called to come forward and pass. Just so he knows who's the boss.
Jubara & Ar-Ras
09:20-10:20 – Again we had to wait for permission to enter the village. As we were coming out, the sergeant decided to harass us (or maybe he was genuinely a scatterbrain). "Who are you?" "Is this the same car you came in with?" "Yes." "There were flags." We show him the flags. "And a sign." We show him the sign. At A-Ras there is a dog-handler, but no cars were checked while we were there. We met Ecumenicals from Finland stationed in Tulkarm. They told us about a house belonging to Jubara but situated just outside the village, in what is now a military area. There is a demolition order. Surprisingly, they were allowed to walk on the military road and visit the people. Apparently "B'Tselem" and other organizations are involved. Shaukieh, Abu Hatem's wife, told us that her husband is hospitalized in Tulkarm following a stroke. Sad.
'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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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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