‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Jubara (Kafriat), Wed 12.11.08, Afternoon
16.25
Anabta – There are no lines on either side. Few vehicles are passing through. A traffic policeman is checking entering Israeli cars.
Tami walks up to the soldier but he immediately tells her to leave. She is not permitted to come near. Tami points at a sign in the name of “Women in Blue and White” and asks: “How did that sign get there? Did you put it up?” He: “They put it up and left.” Tami: “ So we’ll leave soon as well.”
We leave at 16.35
17.00
Jubara, Gate 753 (in the past called “The Children’s Gate”). A pickup truck and its Palestinian driver are detained. Next to them an ecumenical volunteer is talking on the phone. We understand from her that the driver has been detained for an hour and a half already, since he doesn’t obey the commander’s order to pick up the cigarette butts from the ground….she is calling the Red Cross and the Civilian Administration and files a complaint.
The commander asks me to move the car away, since it is blocking the traffic. I continue driving towards the fence, stop the car and wait for Tami. She returns and tells the following story: The driver had been smoking. He put out his cigarette and threw the butt on the ground. (It’s not clear if he was ordered to do so or not.) The commander ordered him to pick up the butt he had thrown. He picked it up. The commander ordered him to pick up all the butts on the ground. He refused and that’s why he was detained. The commander confirmed the story.
We call the IDF Humanitarian Centre, and the woman on duty (who gets his ID number) says that she will file a complaint against the checkpoint commander.
Tami to the commander: “Isn’t the situation difficult enough? Do you have to make it even harder?” He insists: “I don’t have to clean up their dirt.”
Tami bends over, collects all the butts in her hand and asks him to let the driver go.
The commander: “It’s not your job.” She: “It’s my moral duty.”
He lets the driver leave.
17.15
We drive on to Ar-Ras. We ttake the ecumenical volunteer, who lives in Tul Karem, with us from gate 753 to the road block at Ar-Ras, where she gets a lift home.
The road block is completely dark. Only along the road is there some faint light. There is hardly any traffic. We walk up to the soldiers to greet them, but they don’t answer. To them we don’t exist.
We leave.
'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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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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