‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, ‘Izbet alTabib, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla
The occupation routine. Izbet Tabib is open but the northern gate to 'Azzun 'Atma is manned and passage is limited to residents of 'Azzun 'Atma and holders of entry permits to Israel. Three children sell coffee at the southern 'Azzun 'Atma checkpoint.
06:20 'Azzun 'Atma south. More than 60 people on line, a large number for this hour. Many who’d already crossed crowd around small fires outside to get warm, waiting for their employers to pick them up. Three children selling coffee cross the road back and forth offering their wares; they were still there when we left at 07:00. It takes 25-30 minutes to cross at this hour. On the village side of the checkpoint both parking lots are filled with cars belonging to people going who’ve left them there and crossed. The construction of the wall continues rapidly.
07:00 Six girls on their way to school accompany female teachers.
07:20 Habla. The line isn’t long; many have already crossed. Pickup trucks with seedlings, cars and carts also go through. One is pulled by a white, long-haired pony covered in mud, an unusual sight in this area. At 07:35 the bus with the girls from ‘Arab Ramadin goes through. We didn’t see the boys’ bus; maybe it crossed earlier? At 07:45 everyone else who had been waiting was admitted to the checkpoint area – about 20 people and some more carts and cars – and the gates closed. Five minutes later they’d all completed inspection and exited to the seam zone; then the remaining gates closed.
08:00 Eliyahu gate. Few cars are waiting; about three people on the pedestrian line.
The entrance to Izbet Tabib is open (it was blocked again the next day).
08:35 Northern 'Azzun 'Atma. The gate is manned; there’s no line and whoever arrives crosses quickly. Only holders of entry permits to Israel or the seam zone, or whose ID cards show they have an address in 'Azzun 'Atma, are allowed to go through here.
On our way back we visited Z. in 'Azzun. We had a pleasant cup of coffee with him at a table he’d received as a gift. The sun shone warmly; for a moment we could imagine all was well and good
'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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'Izbet a-Tabib
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'Izbet a-Tabib
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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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