Beit Amin, Habla
12:20 Beit Amin/’Izbet Salman checkpoint 1447
12:20 A military vehicle stood at the entrance to the security road. We drove on the road without any problems.
12:30 We parked opposite Gate 1447. Three men waited on the Palestinian side.
12:40 An army truck arrived with four soldiers and a driver. The soldier opened the gate at 12:45 exactly.
We heard one soldier say to another, “Just check the ID cards, because the tablet isn’t working.”
The three men, a tractor, and a car went through easily, as did a man coming from afar along the security road, who crossed into Palestine.
We left before the gate closed because we hurried to reach the gate next to Hani’s family.
12:55 Hani checkpoint 1549
We drove past the entrance to Elkana and reached the gate, which was due to open at 12:55.
No one waited to go through and no soldier arrived to open the gate.
13:10 We left for Habla.
13:30 Habla 1393
We met a shepherd who’d already gone through the gate near the plant nurseries. He said he’s still not permitted to bring his sheep to graze in his fields on the Israeli side, despite endless promises.
13:30 The gate is open, crossing proceeds relatively without problems, all the inspections are conducted on the road, and the inspection booth is locked. Two tractors, five trucks, and a number people on foot are waiting. All went through except for a truck loaded with olive and kumquat saplings. The driver couldn’t cross to the plant nurseries because his permit has expired the previous day. He applied to the DCL for renewal but meanwhile he couldn’t cross. Many phone calls by the soldiers and the driver, and a delay, but finally the driver turned back with his truck of saplings.
14:13 The soldiers locked the gate.
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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