‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Qalqiliya, Tue 24.3.09, Morning
7:15 Anabta
There are 4 cars at the entrance and 2 at the exit. All the cars are checked very quickly. A bus, including the passengers' ID cards, is being checked. It takes 4 minutes. A cab is delayed for about 3 minutes. Roadwork is being performed. Passing tractors and bulldozers are delaying the traffic.
A driver waiting in line is talking to us. He tells us that at the checkpoint at Bet-Iba there is a soldier who uses abusive language. He called a driver "stupid donkey". When the driver reaches the checkpoint he is detained because he spoke to us. The driver, Abdallah Abed El-Rahim Ali, has to wait 25 minutes, including having his ID card checked. The soldier (who already asked him what there was for him to talk with us about) says that this was just a "routine check". Heavy equipment parking on the road on the far side of the checkpoint (the exit from Tulkarm) is creating a line of about 5 vehicles. Moreover, only one lane is open at the moment, so the line at the entrance to the town has grown. There are about 20 vehicles.
A driver arrives at the checkpoint.
The driver is ordered out of his car by a soldier.
The driver opens all the doors of his car.
The soldier checks the car.
The driver enters his car again.
The soldier pats the driver on his shoulder.
Coexistence.
7:55 We leave the checkpoint.
The entrance to Azzun is blocked.
8:35 Qalqiliya
There is a short line, which dissolves every few minutes. One car is being detained. The words "being tested" are written on it. The soldier explains to us that because the driver is not the owner of the car, and since the owner actually is Jewish…
8:50 The driver and we leave the checkpoint.
'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.
Ronit Dahan-RamatiJun-18-2026Nabi Elyas. The western entrance is closed
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