‘Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Tue 28.5.13, Afternoon
12:45 Habla
Three men are already waiting at the container, then a few others arrive.
A conversation ensues about the difficulties of the passage at the gates.
13:02 The military vehicle arrives, arrangements for the opening of the gates begin.
13:08 The first group of five passes in the direction of Habla. Immediately after is the first group of five from the direction of Habla passes. During the whole shift the traffic is greater than usual. Among the pedestrians, the tractors and the cars there are also two trucks with big trees for replanting. They are meticulously checked, just as the other vehicles.
13:40 One sees from afar a woman supported by a man, looking sick. After the checking they sit down in the container, waiting for the daughter from Galguliya who will take her mother to a hospital in Israel. L. tells us about the good situation that prevailed before the Intifada, when the movement was free and there was the possibility of working in Israel. He would like that situation to return, the colour of the ID cards does not interest him. He can't see any possibility of creating a Palestinian state in the small area which remained in the cantons, without land, without water, without domination over the whole area and the borders.
14:00 A vehicle which wanted to pass at the CP in the direction of Habla returns driving backwards. Before we understood what had happened the farther gate was already shut. Another man arrives trying to persuade the soldiers to let him pass as he must bring more goods, but he is met with an absolute refusal, although they shut the southern gate a bit before 14:00. According to him he arrived exactly on time and that they opened late, but he was answered that they do what they have to do and what the woman commander tells them to. The other man who arrived with his tired horse and cart, didn't have any chance. Despite his pleas they close the northern gate too and they will have to dry out in the heat for three hours.
14:20 Azzun
The shops are open, the traffic in the street is the usual one, we bring parcels to the shop of Z. and meet two of his children.
14:50 Eliyahu Gate – There are cars in all the lanes, one car is directed to the lane on the extreme right, for checking. After the usual questions we pass without delays.
'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.
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