‘Anabta, Mon 9.2.09, Afternoon
Jubara, A-Ras
13.45 It took the soldier 5 minutes to come to open the gate to Jubara. He looked for the key and when he found it asked another soldier to accompany him because he was scared to go alone. He asked us if we had a permit to go in and phoned the operation room to get it. When he did he asked why we had curtains on the windows, if we were hiding Palestinians and asked to see our IDs as if our MachsomWatch badges were not sufficient. We went through gate 753 with no problems and also a bus with children passed through with no delay.
14.05 A civil police jeep stands at the road in front of the sentry tower. Two policeman wander round the checkpoint. There is much movement of cars in all directions. A soldier signs to cars coming from Qalqiliya to Tulkarm to pass through. The cars coming from Tulkarm are checked carefully by two soldiers. The soldier in the sentry tower asks if he can help. When we ask if he knows who we are he says yes and that he is not for us.One of the policemen stops a taxi after it had passed the checking of the soldier, takes the ID and tells the car to wait at the side. It has many passengers. One of them does not have his seat belt on and the policeman writes a ticket. So he does to other taxis.
14.55 Anabta.
Manned by soldiers but hardly any movement in or out of Tulkarm.
'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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