‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eyal Crossing, Falamiya, Habla, Mon 22.7.13, Morning
06:10 'Azzun 'Atma checkpoint
A fair number of people have already gone through the checkpoint and wait for their employers. About 40 people on line, the revolving gate is operating. Night-shift workers from Hanson arrive and go through with no problems. The crossing goes quickly, like clockwork.
06:35 Habla checkpoint
Soldiers are on site, and many Palestinians wait on line to cross (about 40 people, more than last week at this hour). No one seems to have crossed yet (it was supposed to open at 06:30).
06:42 The first group enters the checkpoint. Now people cross at the usual rate. About 25 people went through during 12 minutes.
'Azzun
The direct exits to Highway 55 from 'Azzun and from Izbet Tabib are open.
08:00 Falamya checkpoint
A car arrives, the gate to the inspection location is locked, so arrivals have to enter inspection through the exit gate. The car is sent back, forward, back again, until the soldiers are satisfied with where it’s standing and approach to inspect it. The car returns; the driver doesn’t have a permit to cross with the car. He must have hoped they’d let him through anyway. His son got out of the car and continued on foot to the seam zone. We don’t see equipment working on the route of the new fence but we hear it from a distance. A small truck arrives, is inspected and drives through onto the security road. A pedestrian crosses; like every time we’ve been here – peace and quiet – it would be a glorious location if only they’d get rid of the fence that mars its beauty. On our way here, a woodchat shrike on the fence greeted us for the third week in a row.
08:45 Eyal gate
The drinking fountain is filthy.
Construction underway all along the northern side of the checkpoint; a temporary construction fence conceals the structure so you can’t see anything, not even people coming through the gate and those waiting for the DCO.
There is a large puddle of water in the wadi between the checkpoint area and the parking lot – a source of mosquitoes and flies, but who cares.
Many taxis in the parking lot wait to drive people exiting to Israel. Some of those who went through the checkpoint wait for their employers to pick them up. While we were there a gardener arrived and took someone to work for the day – not a permanent employee, only a day-laborer.
'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.
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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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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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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.Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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