‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla
A usual day under the occupation
6:15 – Azzun Atme – Just a few people have crossed and not many are waiting in line. Maybe it's because of the weather forecast predicting rain. Outside, three coffee children are trying to persuade people to buy. They claim that they have been permitted to cross the checkpoint today to sell their coffee.
The soldiers claim that 4 check posts are open, the Palestinians say only 3. We can't see since we are not allowed to get close enough to have a look. When the workers from The Hansen Company return from their night shift they are ordered to wait in line and to cross only after everybody has been checked "as if they have anything to bring into the West Bank", the few things they bring to work or maybe some "shopping" from Israel. Who would want to bring anything from Israel into the West Bank?
A detained person is standing in the corner. He tried to cross the fence but was caught. They say that they will keep him for an hour and a half and then they will send him home. The work on the fence and the new road is proceeding. The electricity along the new road is already working. What will happen to the checkpoint? I wouldn't trust what the soldiers say. How will the contractors in the settlements manage without their construction workers? I believe the settlers will make sure a new checkpoint is built. Of course, the Palestinians hope so. They don't want to cross at Eyal in order to work in Israel, and anyway, most, or even all, of them have permits to work only in the settlements, so how will they reach work? Especially, since they are not allowed to go on road 5 in the direction of the settlements. (I have a new idea, why not build a checkpoint near Hanni's house?)
7:00 – Hable – There is no line. Wagons, sheep and also people cross without delay, just the routine checking – magnetometer, taking off the belt, holding up the coat etc.
The children's bus arrives from Hable to drive the teachers to al-Ramadin and then to return with the children to the school in Hable.
8 cars are being checked at the Eliyahu Gate. No pedestrians are waiting in line.
One army vehicle is posted at the entrance to Azzun from Izbat Tabib and another one is parking at the main exit from Azzun to the highway.
'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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Habla
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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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