‘Azzun, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Thu 27.5.10, Afternoon
On the road, between Azzun and Nabi Elias, by the gas station, a "flying barrier" had been put in place. There was a jeep, a sign and two soldiers. A car had been stopped for checking. For what and for whom we had no idea.
At the sign to Alfe Menashe we turned toward the settlement. Of course there were no signs that this road led to Ras A-Tira or Ras Atiya. At the end of the road we found a normal-sized metal gate locked, but it was standing all alone; there was nothing on either side of the gate to stop someone from going around it. But beyond the gate was the security road and on the other side of the road was a huge yellow electronic gate in the separation barrier, also locked. There was no one around, not soldiers and not Palestinians.
17:05 Habla
The gates are both open and two soldiers are allowing the workers to go through in groups of five.
The gates are open and manned between the hours of 16:45 and 18:00. One Palestinian worker holds the stack of ID cards which had been collected from the workers at the Eliyahu checkpoint and hands them out to the others as they go through the gate to Habla, 5 at a time.
Going back to Kfar Saba on the main road we see the long, solid line of cars of the settlers going home.
'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.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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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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