‘Anabta, Azzun, Qalqiliya, Thu 17.7.08, Morning
Qalqiliya
07:20 – The passage is smooth and quick. At times there isn't any car in line.
Azzun
07:45 – Two Border Police cars and a few Border Police constables are at the entrance. About 25 detainees are sitting on the side of the ground. Their documents are being checked. Only one constable checks documents. We are told that all the leaving people aged 16 – 35 are checked and also a few others, depending on surnames because of alerts.
The detainees have been waiting here more than 20 minutes, according to them. We decided to leave and stop here on our way back. The unauthorized outpost in the field before Kdumim is manned and a horse is there, too. In the house on the hill there are neither people nor military.
Anabta
09:45 – There are no lines and the passage is quick. Every now and then a car is stopped for inspection beside the checkpoint and the passengers get out, but it doesn't take more than 2 minutes. In the meantime, another soldier keeps handling the passage of cars. A police car arrives together with another car that the policemen have stopped and now they are giving the driver a ticket. While they are at it they notice that in two cars that pass the checkpoint there are children who don't sit in booster seats as required by law' and the parents get tickets, too.
Azzun
We come back to check what is going on. The military have vanished from here and there are no more problems at this stage.
'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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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Azzun: Enclosed by a high fence and the gate to the village is closed
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