‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eliyahu Crossing, Falamiya, Habla, Shave Shomron, Mon 21.1.13, Morning
Ordinary day of occupation. The passage at 'Azzun 'Atma is slow, at Habla everything is as usual. The children are still on vacation.
06:05 Entrance from Oranit in the direction of Tamar Gate
There is light beside the gate and it is clear that the army is already there. Soon we see figures in the dark coming towards us on the road where the gate is open. They say that everything is quiet.
06:30 'Azzun 'Atma
There are a lot of people waiting outside on both sides of the road. A lot of bonfires have been set up to warm those waiting for transport. There are about 70 people in line, which is relatively a lot compared to recent days when we were here at the same hour. The passage is rather slow because, like a week ago, the soldiers close the gate and every time that 2 people pass inspection they open the gate again; two more enter and they close the gate again. After I photographed what was happening, a soldier came up to me in anger and asked to check that I hadn't photographed him. I showed him the pictures and we explained to him how his work method was slowing down the passage of people – which was something we wished to show in the photos. We spoke about the serious difficulty for the people standing in line, day after day, not for pleasure – discotheque – but because they had to go to work to support their families.
Afterward, when it was his turn to operate the gate, he did leave the gate open and, every time that someone got to the inspection booth, he already let the next one in line move forward in line through the gate. It really did make the whole operation more efficient. During this entire period, the line did not decrease, as people kept coming .
They are working on the side of the road with huge equipment on the southern side and also at the entrance to Shaarei Tikva. It seems that the fence will be moved in such a way that the residents of Shaarei Tikva and their friends will have a new entrance and all the area of the entrance will apparently be returned to'Azzun 'Atma . It isn't clear what was the point of this huge investment in improving the checkpoint. But perhaps they misled us and it isn't going to be moved elsewhere. What is certain is that there will be a new fence around'Azzun 'Atma or, as the Palestinian Israeli worker told us, they are creating a separation fence for it.
07:15 Habla
There are almost no people; whoever arrives takes only a minute for inspection. There are a lot of wagons and cars going through in relation to previous days. The children are still on vacation – another week and a half, and one is quite conscious of them accompanying their parents to work.
07:50 Eliyahu Gate
4 cars are being inspected and very few people are waiting in the pedestrian line. There is a new shed at the entrance for inspection on the pedestrian line, and another
shed farther down the path where they must walk, around the checkpoint, in order to reach the road and continue on their way.
08:15 Falamya
It is quiet as usual at this hour; nevertheless, people continued to arrive with wagons and cars with work equipment to go to the fields. There are a number of children among them who joined their parents, even 3 small children, maybe 4, 6 and 7, who went out with their parents to the field or the grove. At a certain point there was even a short line at the inspection booth.
We continued by way of Jit to Deir Sharaf. The hills are already green, with wildflowers blossoming as well as almond trees in honor of Tu b'Shvat.
09:10 Shavei Shomron – no checkpoint, free passage.
In the shop at Deir Sharaf they told us that life isn't so bad, but there isn't enough work and everyone must get permits to work in Israel. If they would only let us work, all of us would be satisfied and everything would be fine.
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'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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Shave Shomron Checkpoint
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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
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