‘Azzun, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Mon 10.5.10, Morning
Chana S. translating
General comment:
The Palestinians at Ras 'Atiya say that tomorrow night the new checkpoint at Alfei Menashe will open. Please take note. We did not see any final preparations, just a large gate placed next to a steep descent on the road without place for cars to stop. 6.45 Hablah.
The gate was open and people were passing through. It had opened – unbelievably early! – at 6.40. One pedestrian who had a walkman had to lift his shirt for checking. Passage at usual pace.
7.05 Ras 'Atiya
On the way we saw many workers in the direction of Alfei Menashe. Few people in lines in both directions. A trash car waits for its worker who has been stuck for quarter of an hour at the checkpoint and returned to Ras a-Taiah. His permit expired today and he has to go to the DCO.
It is unclear how the driver will manage on his own but he drove on to Ras'Atiya.
Another man is sent back. His record does not show that last time he returned to Ras'Atiya, so now he is sent as punishment to the DCO to renew his permit. In the past they would do this only on the third occurrence; now it seems they are punished the first time. One of the problems is that the Palestinians cannot see if the soldiers are entering correctly their numbers into the computer and thus check for mistakes (which occur regularly, according to the Palestinians). Passage is very slow for women teachers, taking 8 minutes
8.00 Entrance to Azzun, next to Izvat Tabib. A police jeep with border police and a soldier. All cars exiting Azzun stop and travellers’ i.d.’s are checked by computer. A pedestrian is also checked. As only one person works the computer, it takes 5 to 10 minutes per car. The gate to Azzun is open, as well as the main exit to the road but, opposite, there is a jeep observing. 8.20 Funduq. A Border Police jeep at the entrance to the village, checking documents of a car.
Other cars are not stopped. 8.25 Shvut Ami.
Once again there are stones across the road, preventing passage of cars. We did not see any people.
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'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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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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Ras 'Atiya
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The checkpoint is presently on the Separation Barrier roadway, manned and open 12 hours a day, from 6:30 to 18:30. West of it is the large Seam Line village whose school is attended by children from the nearby villages east of the Barrier and many of whose inhabitants have permits to work in Israel. How long this checkpoint will remain in place is unknown, since construction of the Separation Wall, just by the settlement of Alfe Menashe, east of the present Separation Barrier, is endless, as is the creation of a new road and, obviously, a new checkpoint.
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