‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Mon 20.4.09, Afternoon
Translation: Galia S.
Jubara
13:40 – Few cars pass through the checkpoint at the Figs Passage. At our request to open the gate to Jubara, one of the soldiers wants to know if we have permission to pass, whereas another soldier, a veteran, comes with the key to open the gate for us.
At the Schoolchildren's Gate we see Muhamad, detained for being "illegal" [in Israel without a residence permit], who was on his way back to visit his village, Beit Lid. The soldiers have taken his documents and are now making enquiries. We try to talk to the soldiers but they ask us to leave the checkpoint area. Among them we recognize some old acquaintances from the "rolling checkpoint" [unannounced mobile] at Ar-Ras a month ago.
Muhamad goes into a monologue. He tells us he has been working in Segula for the last 7 years, without permission. He says the police know him but leave him in peace. They know he won't cause problems. All he wants is to live, make a living, marry and have children. There is no work in his village. The only thing those who want to work can do is join the Palestinian police. You cannot live on the IS500.00 a month they pay you. Those who work in Israel are considered collaborators… He is on his way to visit his family and on the way back he will go via Jerusalem, where, he says, you can bribe the policemen and pass.
The soldiers let him pass after a thirty minute wait.
Anabta
14:30 – At Anabta checkpoint the traffic is lively in both directions. Many cars with Israeli licence plates. Two lanes are open for traveling. Two soldiers handle the passage of cars that come from the direction of Tulkarm and another two the ones that go into the city. From time to time a car is stopped for a brief check. The heavy machinery stands beside the road and no works are carried out on the road all the time we are here. A dirty Israeli flag is flying near the watch-tower.
Azzun
Two military vehicles stand beside the road about 1 kilometer east of the entrance to Azzun. Soldiers are seen busy at work by the fence that keeps stretching along the road.
At the entrance to the village there is a high earth rampart, in the middle of which is a beaten track, a little lower, probably done by pedestrians. Passing there, we see no people around.
'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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Jubara (Kafriat)
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The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.
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