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‘Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Mon 21.3.11, Morning

Observers: Niva D., Roni S. (reporting), Translator: Judith Green
Mar-21-2011
| Morning

06:55  Habla. The structure of the gate has changed and a new side gate has been added for pedestrians.  However, the vehicle gate was closed and the buses waited alongside the nurseries.  This turns out to be the present process and, after the drivers have been checked, the gate is opened by the soldiers and the drivers.  The soldiers went into the buses and even checked the documents of several of the children.  The buses continued on their way.  A number of other vehicles went through in both directions;  at the same time, pedestrians went through the new gate.

 

07:20 The process is quick and everyone goes through with no problems.  Only about 10 Palestinians were left on the Habla side.

07:30 No one waiting at Eliyahu gate (109), but we see a number of pedestrians and carts on the road between there and the turnoff to Qalqilya. We go to 'Azzun.  No military vehicles were seen along the way.

07:50  Falamya. There are only a few people in the morning.  2 tractors go through after inspection of the "travelers".  One Palestinian goes through quickly, etc..  We meet a Palestinian from the neighboring village who asked for help for his son, who is a patient in an Israeli hospital;  we take some medical documents from him.  The soldiers come to talk with us, but the checkpoint commander is very hostile.

08:20 We leave the checkpoint and travel on the improved gravel road to the village of Falamya, and from there to Kfar Jamal.  A resident of Kfar Jamal told us that the IDF (?) announced to the residents of the village, a few days ago, that they are moving their fence.  Has anybody heard about this? From Kfar Jamal to Jayyus there is a lot of work on the road, but it is possible to pass.  Because of Shushan Purim, we left earlier this time and finished our shift.  We didn't meet any army on the way back.

  • '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.

       

  • 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.  
  • 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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