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‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Ar-Ras, Habla, Jayyus, Jubara (Kafriat), Kufr Jammal, Wed 8.5.13, Morning

Tags: Detainees
Observers: Nora R., Hanna P. (Reporting) Translation: Bracha B.A.
May-08-2013
| Morning

Azun Atma Checkpoin

06:00 – It is foggy outside.   About 60 people  are waiting in line, but more people are arriving, so the line does not diminish.  A device has been installed outside the inspection facility that reads people's permits and scans fingerprints.   A commotion breaks out in the line and the military police respond by stopping the inspection until things calm down: i.e. until people stand quietly in line.   A few minutes after we called attention to this the checks resumed.    Meanwhile the line grew until there were close to 100 people waiting.   When we left Azun Atma we saw an army vehicle a few hundred meters from the checkpoint  and Palestinians sitting next to it and another car.   We found out that these were people who had remained in Israel illegally, and saw the hole in the fence.

 

Habla Checkpoint

07:00 – The line is not long and people are being checked in groups of five as usual.  A tractor with a sprayer and a large truck with a crane are carefully checked.  At 07:20 a bus carrying children arrives  and the driver is checked as well as the bus.   A wagon with two donkeys arrives.  The driver is checked and the donkeys wait like well-behaved children.  A minibus carrying boys arrives and the driver is checked.  The truck with the crane comes back carrying rolls of sod.   

We drove to Jubara to see the fence that has been removed. 

 

09:00 – The Road to Azun, Jiyus, Jamal Kfar Sur, and Aras: We arrived at the place where the children's gate at Jubara had once been and saw for ourselves how the decision of the High Court of Justice had been carried out.  There were Israeli Arabs, Israeli workers, and managers.  One of the managers said he had been the supervisor of the repairs that have beendone on the separation barrier for the past ten years.  He admitted that the separation barrier is a huge waste of money and does nothing for security.   The soldiers guarding the civilians  are bored, and the discussion with us relieved their boredom.   We felt elated: what was being done there was the demolition of the perimeter road.  We were permitted to drive into Jubara.  When we reached the other gate it was closed.  We returned to the "fig gate" via the perimeter road, which was already partially demolished.   An army vehicle arrived before we did and the soldiers said we had come from Jubara  and we therefore had to be checked.  A discussion then took place about what were areas A, B., and C,  and the woman soldier who claimed that Jubara was a red area went to work, checking the trunk, the motor, the gas tank, the car, and our bags.   All our claims did not help.  

 

  • 'Azzun

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    • Azoun (updated February 2019)

      A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control), 

      on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.

      Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.

       

  • '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

       

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      Azoun: The main entrance to village blocked now for several weeks
  • A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)

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    • A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)
      On Tulkarm-Qalqiliya road (574), east of Hirbet Jubara. tia checkpoint is dedicated to residents traveling to and from Tulkarm, so they should not cross apartheid road 557 (only permissible for settlers).

  • 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.

       

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  • Jayyus North (935)

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  • Jubara (Kafriat)

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    •   The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.  
  • Kufr Jammal

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    • Kufr Jammal This village, rising about 200 meters over sea level, is located about 14 kilometers south of Tul Karm town and about 17 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The families living there since the mid-18th century number about 3,000 persons at present. The village has lost thousands of dunams of its northern and western lands due to the construction of the Separation Barrier, leaving the lands themselves behind the barrier. After the Israeli Supreme Court ruling in 2011, the barrier was moved to the west and many farmlands were returned to their owners. It is a quiet village, its relations with the nearby settler-colony of Sal’it are favorable, and many of the villagers work in the colony’s industrial plants. Farmers cross the agricultural checkpoint close to this settler-colony in order to tend their fields unhampered. However, there are numerous acts of harassment and disorder taking place when the village farmers cross the other agricultural checkpoints: gates do not open at hours suitable to the farmers’ needs, and for a short period of time only; the Civil Administration usually prevents all kinds of crops except olives; tractors and other farm equipment are forbidden entry; only a single permit is issued per family, and occasionally such permits are confiscated and their re-issue is delayed – the common excuse is usually “security reasons”. How do the villagers make their living? Holders of work permits inside Israel travel at 3 a.m. to Eyal Checkpoint near Qalqiliya town in order to make it on time to their workplace at Sal’it (close to their village) and elsewhere. Owners of vegetable patches who hold permits are allowed to reach their fields beyond the Separation Barrier through the distant Falamiya Checkpoint. Importantly, fields returned to the village show amazing improvement intending, irrigation and farming variety – and instead of the neglected olive tree groves that were accessible only to holders of transit permits through agricultural checkpoints usually closed, farming has now flourished. (updated Jan 2021)  
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