‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Jit, Ras ‘Atiya, Mon 9.11.09, Morning
07.00 There are about 20 Palestinians waiting to cross into "Israel". 2 teenage boys come across to our side. When we ask them where they are going, they reply "Jaljuliya".A slow stream of labourers comes through in ones and twos. A horse and cart go through without being checked.
07.15 We leave. The checkpost is quiet.
07.25 Ras Atiyah. Two cars are waiting to go through. The children on their way to school pass without a check. Two buses with pupils make their way through, the driver and any other adult on board disembarks for checking. We see a Palestinian detained by the soldiers. A few minutes later, an Israeli police car rolls up and the P's papers and ID are taken. After 15 minutes the police car drives past us and we ask why the P. was detained. The reply: " He is an infiltrator". The "infiltrator" is sent back to his village.
We leave at 8 am.
Shaar Eliyahu – very little activity and virtually empty.
08.10 Azoun is open and nothing to see of the barbed wire and earth mounds.
08.20 Jit junction – We note a jeep by the side of the road observing.
09.00 Anabta. As usual, the post is deserted except for one soldier who we see washing himself at the water trailer. The cars go through unhindered.
'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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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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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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