‘Anabta, Habla, Jubara (Kafriat), Ras ‘Atiya, Mon 1.2.10, Morning
06:30 Agricultural Gate Habla
The gates are shut and there are no soldiers. Beyond the fences we see people waiting.
On the path between the plant nurseries an armoured car arrives, a girl-soldier opens the gate, the armoured car passes and disappears on the security road.
06:35 We phone the Center. They will investigate…
06:40 Soldiers arrive, they make arrangements for themselves…
06:50 The first three workmen enter the installation, the next three take off their belts while they are still outside, to speed up the passage.
After 5 minutes the first three come out.
Until 07:05 6 people passed. They complain very much about the slowness of the soldiers. On the other side of the fence about 40 people are waiting, with cars and carts.
We turn to the CP commander and complain about the delay in opening the gate and the slowness of the checking. He claims that the opening hours of the CP have been changed and that the Palestinians were notified about it.
The new opening hours are: Morning 06:45-08:15, Noon 11:15:12:15, Evening 16:45-18:30. The Palestinians complained a lot about the irregular opening hours in the evening and ask us to come as much as possible in the evening.
07:30 The CP commander goes to the checking installation and a short time later lets people pass at the gate manually, while all the time there are people who pass also through the installation. Many workmen pass.
07:55 We leave the place. Only few people are left.
08:15 Ras Atiya
About 15 people wait to leave the village. A few cars wait to enter it.
A military policewoman checks the entering persons strictly but politely. She is interested to know who we are, the soldier says – a humanitarian organisation – and this is pleasant to hear.
A group of workmen who have work permits for fencing at Alfei Menashe, but for some reason have no passage permits for this CP, are not allowed to leave the village. The matter is being handled by the DCO.
08:45 On the security road an Israeli car arrives at full speed and stops with screeching brakes near the soldiers. An Israeli citizen with an Uzi (or something similar…) hanging on his body gets out of the car, screams at the soldiers, screams at the Palestinians to enters their waiting car. And the two cars, without any checking, disappear in a cloud of dust on the security road – The masters of the land!!!!
10:00 Anabta
The traffic light in the direction of Anabta is red, but there are no soldiers and the traffic flows.
We see from afar, near the watchtower, a police jeep and a soldiers with a dog, and approach them to see. A Palestinian taxi driver has stopped near the red traffic light and is afraid to continue. Immediately a queue of at least 10 cars is formed. The policemen pass and don't bother to tell the taxi driver that he may drive on as there is no checking, and the soldier re-enters the watchtower although he sees the queue. An Israeli driver who waits in the queue decides that one may drive on, and the queue dissolves.
10:30 We arrive at the Fig Passage (Jubara). I stand in the queue and we undergo a very thorough checking by a policewoman without any sense of humour, who sticks to all the rules and regualtions, including getting out of the car, lifting the rug in the trunk etc.
'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.Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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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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