‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eliyahu Crossing, Falamiya, Habla, Jayyus, Mon 29.10.12, Morning
06:00 'Azzun 'Atma – The checkpoint is practically empty, there are many people outside who’ve already crossed but there’s no line and whoever arrives crosses immediately. The soldiers say fewer people crossed today. Apparently the holiday is continuing, though wherever we asked we were told the holiday was over but some extend their vacation, like the son of an acquaintance from Jayyus whom we visited at home to buy olive oil; the son and his family were still on vacation and planned to return to Ramallah only this afternoon.
Six people stand beyond the gate arguing with a female soldier. They’re trying to get their IDs back, which were confiscated because they’d earlier been caught coming through holes in the fence. The soldier insists that the IDs will be returned only at 07:00. There are apparently a fair number of people trying to go through the holes in the fence; while we were at the checkpoint soldiers went along the fence “hunting” people crossing illegally.
IDs were confiscated from those who were caught and they had to “sit in the corner” for an hour or more before having them returned.
07:00 Habla – The gate was being opened when we arrived; we met Nur and Sna’it who’d decided to go on a shift but didn’t coordinate it with "scheduling". We left them there and drove on.
07:20 Eliyahu gate – Two cars being inspected; dogs on site, no one was waiting on the pedestrian line.
07:44 Falamya – The crossing is quiet, a tractor and driver cross quickly. The air is clean after the rain; there are people everywhere picking olives and pruning the groves. The za’atar fields are becoming greener; the atmosphere is calm.
In Jayyus we were told that the north Jayyus checkpoint is open between 06:00 and 07:00. We’ll try to go there next week. In the afternoon it’s open from 13:00 to 14:00.
In Jayyus we were told that the north Jayyus checkpoint is open between 06:00 and 07:00. We’ll try to go there next week. In the afternoon it’s open from 13:00 to 14:00.
'Azzun 'Atma
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'Azzun 'Atma
A Palestinian village of about 1,800 residents. The settlement of Sha'arei Tikva was established on its land adjacent to it, and the settlement of Oranit was established on its agricultural lands. By 2013, the separation fence had passed through the village and a checkpoint staffed by the army allowed the residents to cross from side to side. After building a massive wall surrounding the village and some of its agricultural lands, the residents went daily for five years to their lands that remained in the Seam Zone through the Oranit agricultural checkpoint (4). Since 2018 it has only opened during the olive harvest and the farmers have to pass daily at the Beit Amin / Abu Salman checkpoint (1447), about 3 kilometers north.From a report from March 24, 2021: "The farmers from Beit Amin and Azon Atma are happy that since February 21 the Oranit checkpoint .is going to be open 3 times a day, The farmers are really developing the place."
Report from July 14, 2024: "Ornit checkpoint is closed . The Beit Amin/Abu Salman agricultural checkpoint is closed (there is no contact with the military to check if it opens rarely), the Ezbat Jaloud checkpoint was opened once a day before the war.
Updated for July 2024
Apr-11-2019Azoun: The main entrance to village blocked now for several weeks
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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing
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Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Zufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone. This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone." It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.
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Falamiya
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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.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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Jayyus North (935)
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