Anabta, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla 30.03.11 morning
Translation: Suzanne O.
Habala
6:50 a.m.
A new gate for pedestrians on the left side of the roadblock opened at 6:45 a.m. Reserve soldiers are staffing the gate. Pace of crossing is reasonable.
7:00 a.m.
A bus and a minibus with schoolchildren arrive. They are held up for longer than usual and the children, impatient, alight from the transport. The soldiers send them back again. In order to enable the bus to cross they open the main gate.
A resident of Ras Atira and his wife, who has cancer, he is refused. He asks for help to set his refusal aside. We took his details.
7:40 a.m.
From above we observe that the Jius gate is closed. It is not open this morning either. We tried a few times to get hold of the officer responsible for the crossing, but without success. 3 inhabitants of the village, who had arrived before us in the hope of crossing this morning to get to their land via the local gate, were happy to meet us and told us that children had been throwing stones, not in the area of the gate but above in the village and as a response the gate has been closed. There is no sabotage at the gate (as Tami Cohen was told a few days ago). We offered them a lift to Palmia and when we got there we took their details in an attempt to help them because all three are refused by the Shabak, as are many inhabitants of the village.
They also told us that the army often comes into the village at night. One of them who lives near the fence has problems with this, his children wake in fright at each such visit.
At Falamia there is no queue and only few cross.
We drove through Kafr Jamal and stopped at the grocer's for a chat with the people who made the usual complaints about night visits from the army and confiscation of lands.
Anabta
9:00 a.m.
The roadblock is empty and we don't see any soldiers. We met, by previous arrangement, with a young man who was due to sign a power of attorney and to pass his documents to Micky F so that she can deal with his refusal.
We returned via Eliahu Crossing where there was no crowding in contrast to the early morning when the entrance gate is open.
Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing
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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Zufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone. This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone." It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.
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Habla
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Habla CP (1393)
The Habla checkpoint (1393) was established on the lands of the residents of Qalqilya, on the short road that
connected it for centuries to the nearby town of Habla. The separation barrier intersects this road twice and cut off the residents of Qalqilya from their lands in the seam zone.(between the fence and the green line).
There is a passage under Road 55 that connects Qalqilya to the sabotage This agricultural barrier is used by the farmers and nursery owners established along Road 55 from the Green Line and on both sides of the kurkar road leading to the checkpoint.
This agricultural checkpoint serves the residents of Arab a-Ramadin al-Janoubi (detached from the West Bank), who pass through it to the West Bank and back to their homes. The opening hours (3 times a day) of this agricultural checkpoint are longer than usual, about an hour (recently shortened to 45 minutes), and are coordinated with the transportation hours of a-Ramadin children studying in the occupied in the West Bank.
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