‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Te’enim Crossing, Sun 4.4.10, Afternoon
Western route
Erev Pesach, closure, quiet, little traffic.
13.00 Te’enim. Leaving Israel, no delays and little traffic. Towards Israel, a short quick line.
13.10 Travelling towards Avnei Hefetz, we saw the large blockage to Shufa and reached Shufa from the opposite direction. No one in the streets apart from a few women departing in a taxi. Many buildings have posters of donor organisations and states.
13.50 Anabta. No personnel in the stations. Lively traffic in both directions. Travellers toward Tulkarm slow down, expecting someone (perhaps in the tower?) to call them to stop, but then continue.
G’it junction is open.
14.10 Haviot checkpoint. No sign of a checkpoint at Deir Sharaf. Cars, some with Israeli plates, pass freely in both directions. We went as far as the gate of Shave Shomron.
14.30 Travelled from Al Pundak to Hag’ah. No army presence.
Entrances to Azzun are open.
14.40 Maavar Eliyahu. Free exit towards Israel. At the entrance to the territories, there is a long line of cars. Soldiers and police check cars, documents. Unclear whether this check is random or according to the drivers.
15.00 Ras Atiah. The building of the new separation fence south of Alfei Menashe, which in large part is a wall separating the inhabitants of Ras-atirah from some of their fields, is proceeding rapidly. There is already an (open) yellow gate. They are supposed ultimately to demolish part of the old fence and to join the villages in this pocket to other parts of the Palestinian side, but not to include all their lands.
The soldiers at Ras Atiah checkpoint did not know when this would happen and what exactly the plan was.
Very few people or cars passed. Drivers coming from Hablah are checked in the cars. Their passengers get out and are checked in the hut and reenter the cars after the checkpoint.
15.30 Hablah farmers' gate. Contrary to previous times when we met farmers with loaded donkeys, as well as some women returning from work in hothouses, today they were not waiting for the gate to open at 16.45. and no soldiers were to be seen.
'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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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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Habla
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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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Ras 'Atiya
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The checkpoint is presently on the Separation Barrier roadway, manned and open 12 hours a day, from 6:30 to 18:30. West of it is the large Seam Line village whose school is attended by children from the nearby villages east of the Barrier and many of whose inhabitants have permits to work in Israel. How long this checkpoint will remain in place is unknown, since construction of the Separation Wall, just by the settlement of Alfe Menashe, east of the present Separation Barrier, is endless, as is the creation of a new road and, obviously, a new checkpoint.
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Te'enim Crossing
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Te'enim Crossing The Figs checkpoint, located on Road 557, east of the Green Line and the Ephraim Checkpoint (Road 444), is a vehicle crossing, open 24/7 all year round. It serves the Israeli population, including those authorized to enter the Palestinian Authority. The passage of foreigners holding international passports recognized by the State of Israel is approved. In exceptional cases will the passage of a Palestinian be allowed here.
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