‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Ras ‘Atiya, Te’enim Crossing, Thu 22.10.09, Morning
Translator: Louise L.
7.00 – Teenim Gate
We are waiting for the key which has been lost, and there is only one copy. They promise to make another one. At the Childen’s Gate everything is quiet. The passage is quick. The entrance and exit permits are being checked. The school children passed through the gate a long time ago.
8.05 – Anabta
There are no soldiers at the security positions, only at the pillbox. We decide to walk over to the other side of the fence, and nobody cares. The car traffic is delayed once in a while, when a driver does not dare to pass and is waiting for a soldier to give him a sign to drive on. After some time they realize that there are no soldiers, so they pass the checkpoint carefully. When we pass the checkpoint we see spider nets between the security position and the fence. It seems a long time has passed since somebody walked through the checkpoint.
9.40 – Azun
Both the main entrance and the entrances on the side are oopen.
9.55 – Rsa Atia
A truck is driving towards the West Bank. Some women together with some small girls struggle to get off to get their permits checked. One of the women is sent to be checked in the building. They return, climb up onto the truck, which drives on. The whole procedure takes 10 minutes.
Some children with a wagon arrive from Ras Atia. They wait for some time, and after talking with the soldiers they return.
A car with a two year old girl looking very ill arrives from Ras Atia. The father tells us that they were at the hospital yesterday, and now they are going back. The father is sent to be checked in the building, and it takes 15 minutes until they are allowed to drive on. Why all this harassment, when it is quite evident that they are all Palestinians, and there is no reason why they should not be able to enter Palestine freely?
Who knows?
'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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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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