‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Irtah, Jubara (Kafriat), Tue 27.11.07, Morning
Irtah 07:00
At this relatively late hour there are still quite a few workers waiting for their transport, though most of them are out of the facility, that opened at 04:30. We didn't hear any complaints.
Jubara and A-Ras 07:10-07:40
The new reserve soldiers manning the checkpoint call their command, and wave us in. At gate 753 (up the village) a group of agricultural workers carrying permits enter the village. The schoolbus arrives from Tulkarm to collect the waiting children.
At A-Ras traffic is sparse, checking cursory.
Anabta 07:50-08:20
Most vehicles pass without checking. While we were there 2 taxis were stopped, either at random or because the passengers were young people. Their IDs were checked quickly by the computer.
Funduk village 10-11:15
(back from Beit Iba) We stopped at Funduk. Sarah had made an appointment with Ali, an inhabitant of Funduk, to collect a disk of photos recording the damages done by the settlers three days ago. What we saw, and this after some of the damage has been fixed, is the result of a veritable pogrom done by settlers and backed up by soldiers, border policemen and regular policemen. According to the witnesses there were 100-150 rioters, arriving by buses and cars.
We visited some private homes and some workshops. At one house we saw all the windows smashed and covered with blankets. A little girl who was sleeping in her bed was hit on the head by a stone and started bleeding. The 3 children of this family are still afraid to go to school and have been staying since at their grandmother's in Hajah. Their mother was standing there, crying. Her husband showed us a plateful of uneaten food: she won't eat.
Outside, the owner of the house has collected the stones thrown at them in a pile. There was a settler on horseback who used his rifle butt to break windows.
At the neighbouring house, his uncle's, the same damage. The people there were hiding while all this happened.
Near the marble workshop shards of glass from car windows are still strewn all over the place, and marble plates are broken to pieces. At the mosaics workshop similar damage. According to the people, soldiers lit the area with flares.
At Ali's carpentry shop they broke the door and the windows. We saw the cracked windshield and damaged body of his van.
From the upper floor of next door a woman hailed us. Her husband threw back a stone at the people downstairs, the soldiers burst in through neighbouring roofs, shooting, and arrested him. He hasn't been back since. Sarah noted the names of 3 people who had been arrested and we gave them the number of Hamoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual.
According to Ali and his friends not all the soldiers took part in the pogrom, and yesterday the army prevented another such event.
Later today a visit from Yesh Din, who deal with attacks by settlers, is expected.
'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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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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Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)
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The checkpoint is for Palestinians only. It is the main barrier to the passage of workers from the northern West Bank to Israel. Workers with a permit to work in Israel and also for trade (with appropriate permissions), medicine, and visiting prisoners. One can cross the checkpoint only on foot. The checkpoint is located north of Road 557 and south of Tulkarm. Operated by a civil security company, opening hours: between 4:00 and 19:00 on weekdays. As members of Machsom Watch, we began our shifts to this location in 2007. We arrived before it opened at 4 in the morning and report since, on the harsh conditions and the long and crowded queues of workers. The workers who pass by continue their journey by transportation to work throughout Israel. In the first period of its activity, about 3,000 and then 5,000 people passed through this checkpoint every day. Due to the small number of checking points and arbitrary delays for long periods of time in the "rooms", workers feared losing their transportation. Hence workers leave their homes at 2:30 at night to be among the first. Today, 15,000 pass and the transition is faster. Workers are still leaving their homes very early to get past the checkpoint at 7 p.m. In an adjacent compound, there is a terminal for the transfer of goods on a commercial scale, using the back-to-back method.
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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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