‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eyal Crossing, Habla
The occupation continues to improve, the checkpoints are operating at top capacity. The children are on vacation and we saw a number of them going out to work with their parents.
06:15 'Azzun 'Atma
Surprisingly there is no one standing in line. Outside, there are a lot of people, the usual number, who have gone through warming themselves around bonfires. It is cold outside, despite the pleasant weather. The soldiers tell us that they were efficient; also the Palestinians also said there were no problems in getting to this checkpoint (i.e., the gate from Beit Amin to 'Azzun was supervised, but it was possible to go through). On the other hand, both the soldiers and the Palestinians said that on Sunday there was chaos, arguments in the line and many problems. The wall, which surrounds 'Azzun 'Atma, is constantly getting larger, almost reaching the road to Elkana. What will happen when it crosses the road? Not clear.
07:00 Habla
There are about 30 people in line; new people keep arriving. The line is not short, but the crossing is pretty quick. 30 people in about 10 minutes, a record for this checkpoint. A lot of wagons go through and, in the end, also a lot of vehicles with seedlings and wrinkled sabra leaves being taken to the nursery to grow sabra plants.
The children are on vacation and came to work with their parents, even a small 6-year old who came to work with his father. The wagon owners opened, and later closed, the vehicles gate — self service. In order to speed up the crossing of the last people, some of them are checked by hand by the soldiers at the checkpoint.
07:47
The checkpoint is closed. No more people are waiting. Today they all managed to go through.
08:10 Eyal checkpoint
We went there, not because it is a good hour to watch, but so that we could acquaint Rachel with the checkpoint and do a little investigating. On the northern side, there is a new impermeable fence being constructed in place of the wire fence which bordered the area between the checkpoint and the DCO office. Now it is really impossible to see anything, everything is blocked off. The occupation is continually hiding itself more effectively. Transparency is not its strong card.
A group of women went by, on the way to Jerusalem; a group of workers returned home as they did not find work and were very depressed – what can they do now? No work and no income. It costs 30 NIS to travel in each direction from their homes to Nablus and, in the end, no work and no money.
'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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Eyal Checkpoint / Crossing
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Eyal Checkpoint is intended for pedestrians and Palestinians only. This is the main barrier for workers to cross from the center of the West Bank. Workers with a work permit to enter Israel can pass through it for trade, medicine, and visiting prisoners. The checkpoint was built on the Green Line north of Qalqilya in the separation barrier that surrounds the city. The checkpoint began operating in 2004 by the military. Opening hours on weekdays from 04:00 to 19:00. We started holding shifts there in 2007. We arrived at the checkpoint before it opened at 4 in the morning. We reported on the difficult conditions and the long and cramped queues of workers who must continue their journey by commuting to work throughout Israel. At the end of June 2009, the checkpoint was operated by a civil security company, The transit time has been gradually shortened, today it is faster, but the Palestinians still have to arrive very early to make it to the transportation. Usually, about 15,000 people pass through.
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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.Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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