‘Anabta, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Thu 4.2.10, Afternoon
It’s a cold and rainy day.
14.52
Anabta – There are no soldiers. There probably is guard in the tower.
The vehicles are passing in both lanes without delay.
15.08
Irtah – Nobody has to wait at the exit from Israel. The workers say that for ten days already people leaving Israel have not been checked, and so there is no line.
15.17
At the entrance gate to Israel there are seven Palestinians waiting in line. One of them is a woman with medical permits. (When we went there the security guard told us that nobody was waiting..) They tell us that they have been waiting for an hour. After we turn to Nadav at the District Coordination Office and then to Or at the IDF Humanitarian Center an announcement is being made through the loudspeakers that the turnstile will open in five minutes. It starts to rain and there is no roof to cover those who are waiting.
We give the phone numbers to the Humanitarian Center and to Machsomwatch to the people in line, so that they will be able to call the next time they are being ignored.
15.38
The turnstile opens.
'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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