‘Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Qalqiliya, Mon 23.5.11, Morning
Habla Gate 1392
06:59 The gate is open, but no one is crossing.
07:00 2 buses with children arrive. The drivers get off for inspection. The 2 buses go through first.
07:04 The first group enters (5 people)
07:30 The group of 5 exits. 25 people go through in 26 minutes. The passage is relatively slow.
Eliyahu Gate
07:35 While traveling, we see about 15 people waiting.
Qalqilya junction A meeting with Nidal; signature on power of attorney for cancelling the GSS restriction category.
07:45 Qalqilya checkpoint open, no soldiers.
08:10 Falamya gate. Empty. The soldiers are sitting in the booth.
08:30 A bicycle + a tractor driver pass through with no delays.
08:40 A small truck arrives. 3 passengers and another tractor with its driver enter for inspection and pass through with no delay. From the other side, a man riding a donkey arrives and he also goes through quickly. We leave and follow after a tank car sprinkling water on the dusty road.
08:50 Jayyus-'Azzun road. Flying checkpoint. 9 soldiers stop a taxi in the middle of the road (on the white dividing line.( They open and inspect the baggage compartment of the car and let it go. They don't check us; on the contrary, they help return the little flag which had fallen by mistake. Another 3 vehicles arrive from 'Azzun: A private car is immediately sent back (a man with a girl) – not clear why, they didn't even inspect him. The second vehicle went through immediately. The third vehicle (taxi): the people get out for inspection; they inspect the inside of the car and let everyone through. The taxi behind us also went through with no inspection. 2 vehicles from the other direction go right through. And now the soldiers scatter and go into the field, as though they are on some exercise practicing how to do a flying checkpoint. A collector of scrap materials beside the checkpoint area whom we met tells us things are generally quiet.
09:10 Isbet Tabib. A truck loaded with all kinds of movable goods is standing on the inner road from Isbet Tabib to 'Azzun, about 500 meters from Isbet Tzbib, surrounded by military vehicles and a lot of confusion. We call the village head and he says he will come right over. Meanwhile, we meet another man from the village. We drive in the direction of the truck and see 5 vehicles guarding the truck with the goods and also 2 soldiers standing on the hill. Shoshana takes photographs. We return to the gate to meet the village head. The soldiers stand at the entrance of the village next to the gate. One of the soldiers standing right next to the gate shouted at us when we tried to photograph. He moved from his position when we informed him that it was a civilian area. At 10:03 nothing has happened; we enter the village. Everything was quiet, the children were in school. The village head said that the children would come out of school soon in order to demonstrate. Of course, we contacted Rayah and the women in the afternoon shift.
10:20 We drove again in the direction of the truck with the goods, it was still there. They had not yet started to unload the goods.
10:30 We left. The village head, sitting at the entrance to the village, said that they are waiting to see where they will put the goods. If they block the olive trees, they will go there. We return. Eliyahu Gate is empty.
'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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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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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Azzun: Enclosed by a high fence and the gate to the village is closed
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