‘Anabta, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Wed 1.12.10, Afternoon
Translation: Hanna K.
14:50 Izbat at Tabib: We visited Sami on whose house there is a threat of a demolition order. Joy of the poor in their abode: they prepare themselves for a family wedding.
15:30 Entrance toBeit Lid: A military vehicle and six soldiers near it.
Anabta: We met a Palestinian whom we had to have sign a power of attorney for a lawyer, to enable him to enter Israel.
We passed through Irtah, the village of Shufi & Jubara.
15:55 Irtah/Sha'ar Ephraim: Until this point we took photos. On entering we were immediately welcomed by the new signposts forbidding taking photos. The camera was put into the pocket, but this wasn't enough. The scout on the tower probably saw that we took photos before we came up against the signpost, and the man on the spot welcomed us. He asked to see the camera, we allowed this, and then all that was photographed a long time before was erased – as, according to him, the Artah\Sha'ar Ephraim passage was observed in the photo taken from the distant road. It was too late to argue: no photos were left. We toured the installation, the passage seemed routine and returned to the entrance where we were asked by an Arab-Israeli driver to find out why the physician who was meant to drive with him to Israel (meetings were fixed for him and he might be late) was delayed at the exit gate. The driver looked at his cellular phone and saw that the conversation with the physician about the entrance to the gate was received at 15:15. The guard refused to talk to us. The man in charge announced that nothing of the kind had happened, nobody was there ten minutes ago. After a phone conversation he compromised and said he had meant twenty minutes, and he wasn't at all clear what the matter was about. A talk with the DCO didn't help either.
We left at 16:30 and asked the driver to try and get information. At 16:45 (an hour and half of waiting time) we were informed that the physician had arrived.
'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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