'Azzun, Falamiya North Checkpoint (914), Habla Checkpoint (1393)
A shift with the addition of acquaintance with the area.
11:15 – Elkana enclave, with explanations about the border zone in relation to the settlements, the gate of Hani.
Explanation of the wall which surrounds ‘Azzun ‘Atma and its lands where, in general, in the open area the main obstacle is only the system of fences, the road and the Oranit checkpoint 1474, which opens and closes alternately since it was built.
12:00 – Azzun, for the regular visit with explanations about the situation of the municipality.
12:45 – Falamiya North. The rain which started a bit earlier became a flood. The Palestinians who are going througth in several tractors, two on bicycles, wave hello. We decided not to continue to Falamiya South, but to return by way of Kufr Jammal.
13:40 – A short tour and acquaintance with Alphei Menashe, Arav a-Ramadin.
14:00 – We arrive at the checkpoint of Habla before it closes. A few more vehicles are going through in both directions. Because of the rain, we don’t stay long.
'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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Falamiya North (914)
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Falamiya North (914) Opens 3 times a day for about 40 minutes each time. This checkpoint has extremely important for all farmers in the area since the previous, Falamya checkpoint opening routine of continuously open for 12 hours has been discontinued. This took place after the separation fence was moved westward following the High Court of Justice.
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Habla CP (1393)
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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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