‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Qalqiliya, Wed 26.3.08, Morning
Overall
At Qalqiliya checkpoint there is a handcuffed Palestinian.
The police ambush drivers, giving unjustified tickets.
Jubara
07:15 – A soldier opens the gate for us. An old Palestinian asks to pass "just to turn on a tap", as he says. The soldier promises us to ask his superior for permission.
Ar-Ras checkpoint (Farm 8)
07:20 – Cars that arrives from the direction of Qalqiliya are not checked. Only few vehicles come from the direction of Tulkarm. The checks are brief. Pedestrians heading Jubara pass, as does a horse-drawn cart.
Anabta (Einav)
07:55 – 08:05 – In contrast to what is usually going on here at this hour, today there are scarcely any vehicles. The checks are brief and on both sides there are no lines.
Azzun
The main entrance to the village from road 55 is blocked, as it has been for the last two months, by earth ramparts and barbed wire. A few guys climb up the rampart in order to get to the road. There isn't any military vehicle. The western entrance to Azzun Atme is open. We have seen no blockade on the road parallel to highway 55.
Qalqiliya
11:10 – 11:30 – (On the way back from Beit Iba).
There are no lines and the vehicles pass almost without any delay. A handcuffed man sits on the ground nearby. According to the soldiers, the man is wanted and he is waiting for somebody from the General Security Services to come and get him. We were prevented from getting details from him.
On our way out of the checkpoint, Nadim stops for a minute to get buckled up, because he has seen a policeman lurking in hope for prey on the side of the road. The policeman gives him a ticket for disturbing the traffic.
'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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