‘Anabta, Azzun, Beit Iba, Eyal, Jit, Wed 9.4.08, Afternoon
Natanya translating.
Nothing to report, Routine, Calm.
14.40 The Ayal passage with 10 cars and the settlers go through. Azun is closed all along the road. Jit is open and the checkpoint not manned.
15.15 At Beit Iba there is not lines of cars nor are there many and the traffic streams steadily. There are few pedestrians and no detainees.
16.00 I photograph and the commander who is polite asks me not to do so but I explain that we are allowed to do so. He says he knows but it puts the soldiers under pressure. There was nothing really to photograph so I desisted. The commander is a reservist from Jerusalem. He is an educator of the young and does not enjoy his service and is happy that it is ending tomorrow.
We speak to a Palestinian who has been checked and a soldier comes up to us and asked us to speak to him further off….one of the soldiers who was "under pressure." The man has not been able yet to dress himself or put on his belt but he also wants to move away. We moved one step away and continued the conversation while he puts on his belt.
16.20 We left the checkpoint and there were only 5 cars waiting to enter Nablus. A driver stopped us to ask for help. He wanted to go from Nablus thorugh Ein Bidan but he says there are 20.000 people and cars and they cannot go through. He returned to Nablus and went out through Beit Iba. He asked to try to help the people at Ein Bidan and we said at once and he thanked us. We phoned Tammie and she said that everyone knew about this including the high command, members of parliament, etc. and there is nothing to be done. Afterwards we were told that there was a search for two terrorists.
16.30 Anabta was practically empty.
16.45 The tayaniem passage. We wanted to go into Jubara so as to get to A-Ras but it seemed that there was no key to the gate which has been lost since the morning. We informed Tammie and went on our way home. The next day thanks to Tammie we heard from the morning shift that the key had been found.
'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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Beit Iba
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A perimeter checkpoint west of the city of Nablus. Operated from 2001 to 2009 as one of the four permanent checkpoints closing on Nablus: Beit Furik and Awarta to the east and Hawara to the south. A pedestrian-only checkpoint, where MachsomWatch volunteers were present daily for several hours in the morning and afternoon to document the thousands of Palestinians waiting for hours in long queues with no shelter in the heat or rain, to leave the district city for anywhere else in the West Bank. From March 2009, as part of the easing of the Palestinian movement in the West Bank, it was abolished, without a trace, and without any adverse change in the security situation.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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Eyal Checkpoint / Crossing
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Eyal Checkpoint is intended for pedestrians and Palestinians only. This is the main barrier for workers to cross from the center of the West Bank. Workers with a work permit to enter Israel can pass through it for trade, medicine, and visiting prisoners. The checkpoint was built on the Green Line north of Qalqilya in the separation barrier that surrounds the city. The checkpoint began operating in 2004 by the military. Opening hours on weekdays from 04:00 to 19:00. We started holding shifts there in 2007. We arrived at the checkpoint before it opened at 4 in the morning. We reported on the difficult conditions and the long and cramped queues of workers who must continue their journey by commuting to work throughout Israel. At the end of June 2009, the checkpoint was operated by a civil security company, The transit time has been gradually shortened, today it is faster, but the Palestinians still have to arrive very early to make it to the transportation. Usually, about 15,000 people pass through.
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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.
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