‘Anabta, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Sun 28.6.09, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha
Anabta
16:30 The temporary checkpoint is still located close to the junction. Two soldiers are standing in the southern position and two at the northern one and are stopping every car and checkpoint documents and vehicles. A minibus with yellow license plates (Israeli) going in the direction of Tulkarem is asked to pull over so that the other cars can pass. The soldier collects the Palestinian passengers’ documents and goes to the guard post to relay their ID numbers on the phone. After 5 minutes the answer is received, their ID cards are returned and the minibus is released.
The soldiers are thoroughly checking each car entering Tulkarem and the line grows longer at the entrance and exit.
Irtah
17:30 Vehicles filled with workers arrive in the parking lot in the entrance to the facility one after the other. The workers get out quickly and hurry through the door. The turnstile is locked every few minutes to control the number of people in the facility. Only one inspection window is open. The checks are quick and everyone gets through within a few minutes. A driver is waiting in the shed next to the parking lot for his family to come out of the checkpoint. He calls our attention to the problematic location of a sign that has been placed directly at the edge of the sidewalk where it gets in the way of passengers getting out of their cars. (See photo). Three families, with women and children come out of the checkpoint. The driver who was waiting for them for about an hour helps them all into his car and leaves.
Eyal
18:00 At this hour there are only a few people coming through the checkpoint and they pass through without any problems.
'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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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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