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‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Jubara (Kafriat), Wed 21.1.09, Afternoon

Place: 'Anabta CP A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint) Jubara (Kafriat)
Tags: Children
Observers: Tami C., Daliah G.
Jan-21-2009
| Afternoon
Translator: Orna B.
Compared to what Edna has described this morning at the Zaatra Checkpoint – here it's an "occupation from heaven".
(Note part B, in bold characters)

14:25 Figs Gate
6 cars are standing in the queue at the entrance to Israel. Rigorous inspections but traffic is flowing.
We ask the soldiers to open the gate to Jubara for us. They claim they need an ok. We wait about 20 minutes. Tami calls her contacts in the army, and then at last they open the gate.

14:50 A-ras Checkpoint
We have not seen such a long queue of cars, in a long time. 12 vehicles, arriving from Tulkarm, are inspected one by one. At the entrance to Tulkarm there are 4 cars. Here too the inspection is very methodical.
The road we had asked them to repair has not been fixed.

15:00
We leave and enter the village of Jubara. In the middle of the village, a 12-year-old boy stops us by physically blocking the road with his body, his arms stretched out. Naturally we stop in front of him. Tami opens the window/
Tami: " Shalom, what is going on?"
The boy in an aggressive tone of voice (in arabic): "Identity cards!"
Tami respectfully takes out our cards and shows him.
He asks: "How much does it cost?"
He is willing to buy the IDs on the spot. We all smile at one another and say goodbye. A children's game drawn from reality.

13:10
We return to the Jubara Gate, and this time the soldiers open up immediately.
At the Figs Gate, at the entrance to Israel, about 30 vehicles are waiting, but traffic is flowing.
We continue to Anabta.

13:20 Anabta
Reserve soldiers. All is calm. No cars at the entrance. At the exit there are 4 cars. We leave and continue to Beit Iba. 

  • '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.  
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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).

  • 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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