‘Anabta, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Azzun, Qalqiliya, Mon 28.7.08, Morning
Eliyahu Passage
06:35 – Few cars at the entrance to Israel.
In spite of the quick passage of each Palestinian, there are still many workers waiting in the shade of the trees.
Qalqiliya
06:40 – There are a lot of cars with Israeli licence plates in the parking lot. In both directions the passage is free. The soldiers peek at the cars and their drivers and wave them on.
Azzun
06:50 – The entrance is open and we go on to Azzun Atme.
Azzun Atme
07:10 – The soldiers (including Ben) don't communicate with us and don't say anything about our position.
There are about 20 people at the pedestrians' entrance. It takes them about 20 minutes to pass. People are entering without interruption and cars pass quickly as well. Two Palestinians who come from the village are checked most thoroughly. They are told to take all their belongings out of their bags and the pockets (on the ground, of course), their documents are checked and they are asked some questions (we haven't heard what). Ten minutes later they are released.
About 10 army vehicles of all kinds arrive – among them jeeps and a military ambulance. They are parked at the checkpoint and their passengers get a briefing. It must be said, that all that time the quick passage at the checkpoint has continued.
07:40 – The vehicles convoy has departed for the patrol road and we have also left to go on our way.
A military vehicle is parked in the "settlement" [an unauthorized outpost] Shvut Ami. In the olive grove on the hills across from the settlement, the settlers' tent camp is expanding without interruption!
Jit junction is free.
Anabta
10:15 – No checks and no lines. The taxi drivers say that there is no way to make a living, either. But there are a lot of figs and cactus fruit.
10:45 – Many Palestinians who look like an expanded family are waiting on the road at the foot of the houses of the village (Suhfa ?), close to the Figs Passage. At the Figs Passage, a soldier who sees us coming closer is waiting for us with the key for the gate, but since we have seen from the road that there is no line at Ar-Ras and, being in a hurry, we have left to go home.
'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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'Azzun 'Atma
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'Azzun 'Atma
A Palestinian village of about 1,800 residents. The settlement of Sha'arei Tikva was established on its land adjacent to it, and the settlement of Oranit was established on its agricultural lands. By 2013, the separation fence had passed through the village and a checkpoint staffed by the army allowed the residents to cross from side to side. After building a massive wall surrounding the village and some of its agricultural lands, the residents went daily for five years to their lands that remained in the Seam Zone through the Oranit agricultural checkpoint (4). Since 2018 it has only opened during the olive harvest and the farmers have to pass daily at the Beit Amin / Abu Salman checkpoint (1447), about 3 kilometers north.From a report from March 24, 2021: "The farmers from Beit Amin and Azon Atma are happy that since February 21 the Oranit checkpoint .is going to be open 3 times a day, The farmers are really developing the place."
Report from July 14, 2024: "Ornit checkpoint is closed . The Beit Amin/Abu Salman agricultural checkpoint is closed (there is no contact with the military to check if it opens rarely), the Ezbat Jaloud checkpoint was opened once a day before the war.
Updated for July 2024
Apr-11-2019Azoun: The main entrance to village blocked now for several weeks
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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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