‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Ar-Ras, Qalqiliya, Thu 21.5.09, Morning
7.10 Ar-Ras
From afar there is no checkpoint and the passage is open.
7.15 Anabta
There is only one lane. The passage is free and the soldier at the one checking area is sleeping. (See a photo). 
The passage is such that one car waits while another comes from the other side and so there is no jam. Now and again a car waits for a soldier to wave his hand (they are obviously afraid of transgressing), but there is no one to do so and the soldier who is not sleeping is busy on the phone and so after hesitating they gather their courage and go through.
The coffee vendor complains that the captain forbade him to pass and sell coffee on the side of Nablus. According to the captain here it is Israel and no Palestinian has the right to sell here. Today he did go through and no one bothered him. Another coffee seller is also forbidden to do so and to go over on foot by the soldiers, but after a short conversation he convinces them that he is permitted.
8.50 Next to Qedumim the settlement on the mountain is working. The shed has been enlarged and they are wandering around there.
8.55 At the crossroads at the entrance to the village of Imatin there is a flying border police checkpoint. They check the IDs of two cars and all the others go through. They say this is their job here.
9.00 Azzun is open.
9.10 Qalqiliya
The passage is fairly fast and now and again there is a check. At the side is a police car giving a ticket to a driver who did not have his safety belt on. The soldiers send another two cars to the police with some complaint, but the policeman frees them. Then he leaves.
Shoshana stood at the west of the sign which announces that this is the entrance to Palestine and is sent by the soldier to stand at the east of the sign. When she complains that she is then not in the shade she is ignored. All this led to a delay of the passage because the soldier went to speak to her. This does not bother him. They also asked me to leave, but in any case we intended doing so.
'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.Karin LindnerOct-28-2011Etz Ephraim settlement. Nurit overlooks Siniriya
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