‘Azzun, ‘Izbet alTabib, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla
Habla, Eliyahu gate
A new procedure at the Habla checkpoint: a female soldier inspects people again before they exit the checkpoint. They’ve already been first inspected by the soldiers when they entered the gate and gone through the metal detector and had their documents checked. Those exiting call to us, “Look how they treat people!” The female soldier continues to inspect everyone again as if they hadn’t been checked minutes earlier by other soldiers.
07:20 Habla
Many people have already gone through. No line at the checkpoint – whoever arrives crosses after a few minutes.
A man stops to complain that today they’re being checked three times: at the entrance gate to the checkpoint area, at the magnetometer and then again at the exit by the female soldier who tells people to turn out their pockets, raise their sweatshirt, turn around. As if the magnetometer wasn’t working, even though the people going through says it is. The female soldier inspects a cart and the people in it who’d already been checked and after discussion allows them to go through. While the female soldier was dealing with the cart, a few people exited without her checking them.
A man on a bicycle arrives two minutes after 08:00, but they allow him to enter. 08:05 – the gate is still open, but a man who comes is turned back.
The gates close.
08:15 Eliyahu gate
Few cars being checked, no people on line.
At the entrance to ‘Izbet Tabib – A military car parked there, a group of soldiers talking beside it. The village is quiet.
The main entrance to ‘Azzun – The gate is open, a military car parked there, soldiers stand next to it, talking.
The ‘Azzun ‘Atma checkpoint has been shut down and dismantled.
'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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'Izbet a-Tabib
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'Izbet a-Tabib
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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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