‘Anabta, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eliyahu Crossing, Falamiya, Habla, Jit Junction , Mon 10.6.13, Morning
A quiet day of routine occupation
06:15 Azzun Atma – A lot of people have been waiting outside in a line of 60-70 people. As soon as we arrive the carousel breaks down. The soldiers are reluctant to pass people through the alternative gate because then there is crowdedness and pushing and that worries them, it is difficult for them to deal with it. They try passing some people but stop and only at 06:35 the carousel was repaired and started working again. Now the passage runs as it should. Muad is selling coffee as usual – one Shekel for a small cup, we buy, he and his family need every penny.
07:00 Habla – Most people have already passed since the checkpoint opens at 06:30. There is still a small line and carts are passing in both directions and cars as well. Children are already on summer break, some of them go to work with their parents.
07:20 Eliyahu Crossing – A few pedestrians waiting in line all is quiet and lots of cars leave the occupied territories toward Israel. We rushed because we had to get from someone a receipt for a bail he paid for his son in court. The son was acquitted but the father couldn’t go to court to get his money back and Haya would do it for him. Another son, who has been shot by soldiers four months ago, is on trial today in Salem and the father wants to get to the trial. What a life.
08:10 Falamiya – It is quiet but not as quiet as usual since the silence is disturbed by a lot of tractors – they are erecting the new fence and the livelihood of Israeli contractors is guaranteed. The moving of the fence would still not solve the problem of the seam zone because even after the moving a large Palestinian area will remain on the Israeli side of the fence and there will be a need for a gate and soldiers to keep the gate. People are passing, towards the fields, children and tractors too.
08:50 Jit Junction – Route 60 – There are policemen and one soldier and they stop cars inspecting documents, checking wheels, headlights and what not – you'd think that people are passing their annual vehicle licensing test on the main road – but after a while they let them go and others are stopped. The checking is arbitrary.
09:30 Anabta Junction – there is a Jeep next to the watchtower and soldiers in the tower but everything is quiet and the passage toward and from Tulkarm is uninterrupted.
'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 '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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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing
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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Zufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone. This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone." It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.
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Falamiya
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Habla CP (1393)
The Habla checkpoint (1393) was established on the lands of the residents of Qalqilya, on the short road that
connected it for centuries to the nearby town of Habla. The separation barrier intersects this road twice and cut off the residents of Qalqilya from their lands in the seam zone.(between the fence and the green line).
There is a passage under Road 55 that connects Qalqilya to the sabotage This agricultural barrier is used by the farmers and nursery owners established along Road 55 from the Green Line and on both sides of the kurkar road leading to the checkpoint.
This agricultural checkpoint serves the residents of Arab a-Ramadin al-Janoubi (detached from the West Bank), who pass through it to the West Bank and back to their homes. The opening hours (3 times a day) of this agricultural checkpoint are longer than usual, about an hour (recently shortened to 45 minutes), and are coordinated with the transportation hours of a-Ramadin children studying in the occupied in the West Bank.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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Jit Junction
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The checkpoint is located on Route 60 near at the junction with Route 55, near the village of Jit. There was a checkpoint for vehicles passing between the north and south of the West Bank, which was abolished towards 2010. Since then, surprise checkpoints have been set up there from time to time with a police or Border Police vehicle, and vehicles and their passengers are inspected.
Anat PolakJul-17-2025Yitzhar Road, Jit Junction: traffic jam
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