‘Anabta, Habla, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Shave Shomron, Mon 7.6.10, Morning
Translation: Judith Green
6:50 Hablah Gate
The gate is closed. From where we are standing, we see about 30 people waiting.
6:52 –the gate opens. When the first 5 people came out ( after about 3 minutes), we asked them when they had arrived at the checkpoint and they all answered that they had arrived at 3AM, "in order to get a good place in line".
A Bedouin woman (from Arab-armadin), who sat in a donkey cart and waited to go through the checkpoint, was sent back because she was taking "merchandise" through – a crate of onions. After she removed the onions and left them at the side of the gate, she was allowed to go through without her "merchandise". Our translator said that she would return in the evening and try to go through with them. Nina spoke with the checkpoint commander, who said that he didn't allow her to go through with her "merchandise" since she didn't co-ordinate it previously (?). In the quarter hour after the opening of the gate, 25 people had gone through.
7:20 – A bus with children arrived at the entrance, going to Ras a-Tirah. The driver explained that today was the last day in the school year. The older children (those with IDs) get off the bus and are sent for inspection of their documents, as is the driver.
7:30 – Up until now, 50-60 people have passed through. We checked the average time of about 1/5 of the people: 2.5 minutes. A Palestinian with a donkey cart in which were 2 jugs of sheep's milk from his flock which he grazes on the Israeli side of the gate, who had been waiting about about 3/4 hour in order to enter the village, says, after his daily harassment, "Now we will vote for Nasrallah."
– 8:17 the gate closes. Another soldier begins to lock the gate when another young man arrives who wants to enter the village again. The soldiers did not agree and shut the gate in his face. 8:30Ephraim Gate/Irtah. – no one there. At the village of Izbat at Tabib we saw a garbage truck collecting trash. This was the first time for me. The entrance from Izbat at Tabib to Azzun is open.
9:00 – the checkpoint at Shavei Shomron is still closed. Work is being done on the road. 9:30 – Checkpoint at Anabta is open.
9:35 – They are paving the road between Einav and Avnei Hefetz, for the convenience of 2 settlements, while the parallel route between Upper and Lower Shufa is closed.
'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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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.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)
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The checkpoint is for Palestinians only. It is the main barrier to the passage of workers from the northern West Bank to Israel. Workers with a permit to work in Israel and also for trade (with appropriate permissions), medicine, and visiting prisoners. One can cross the checkpoint only on foot. The checkpoint is located north of Road 557 and south of Tulkarm. Operated by a civil security company, opening hours: between 4:00 and 19:00 on weekdays. As members of Machsom Watch, we began our shifts to this location in 2007. We arrived before it opened at 4 in the morning and report since, on the harsh conditions and the long and crowded queues of workers. The workers who pass by continue their journey by transportation to work throughout Israel. In the first period of its activity, about 3,000 and then 5,000 people passed through this checkpoint every day. Due to the small number of checking points and arbitrary delays for long periods of time in the "rooms", workers feared losing their transportation. Hence workers leave their homes at 2:30 at night to be among the first. Today, 15,000 pass and the transition is faster. Workers are still leaving their homes very early to get past the checkpoint at 7 p.m. In an adjacent compound, there is a terminal for the transfer of goods on a commercial scale, using the back-to-back method.
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Shave Shomron Checkpoint
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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
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