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‘Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Mon 30.5.11, Afternoon

Observers: Shoshi B., Tova H. (reporting), Nadim (driver) Translator: Charles K.
May-30-2011
| Afternoon

 

 

14:30 

Traffic cones block traffic for a few kilometers from the entrance to Izbet Tabib along the main road (Route 55) to Azzun.  Many soldiers erecting a fence along the side of the road.

Three rows of concertina wire piled one upon the other along the side of the local road to Izbet Tabib.

We go through Azzun.  The villages are quiet, no one is around, the sun beating down.  A local man at the Jayyous taxi stand tells us there was a checkpoint for four days between Jubara and Tulkarm.

The portion of the road we’re driving on to Falamya is paved.

15:15 

The Falamya checkpoint is open, two soldiers under the canopy, one at the booth.  It’s quiet; no one going through.

Kufr Jamal is quiet.  We went into the grocery; the owner’s wife gave Nadim a list of the fifty children who’ll participate in the day at the beach organized by Machsom Watch.

On our way to Jayyous we see a large bulldozer preparing the road to be paved by the Palestinian Authority.  The road is in poor condition.  We go through Jayyous and Sir.  The gate at Azzun is open.

16:20 

On our way back traffic flows at the Eliyahu crossing.  A parked police jeep observes those coming through.  We’re in the lane for Israelis.

We enter Habla.  The agricultural gate is closed.  Six people waiting.  It will be open from 17:45 to 19:00.

  • '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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