Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Jubara (Kafriat), Thu 19.5.11, Afternoon
Translator Charles K.
For a change – at Irtah, the crossing from Israel to Palestine without any delays!
For the past two days workers enter Palestine directly – that is, they bypass the inspection building completely. (We were forbidden to photograph).
13:55 Habla checkpoint – We arrived shortly before it closed. 
Armed reservists with nothing to do guard the gate. Two laborers who arrived on bicycles await their turn to enter the inspection rooms.
A horse gallops up, pulling a cart and driver – just before the gate closes. He’s in luck. He crossed.
14:10 Eliyahu crossing – A large military vehicle, soldiers alongside, and a police car stand in the checkpoint’s open area.
14:35 Falamya gate – The gate is open, soldiers beneath the canopy. No workers crossed while we were there.
There are extensive road works along the roads between the quiet, dusty Palestinian villages – Jayyous, Khirbet Sir, Kufr Jamal, Kufr Zibad, Kufr Sir, A-Ras. New approach roads are being paved. That’s why signs in Arabic and English direct drivers to the detour (which we took).
15:00 Jubara – The “children’s gate” checkpoint has been upgraded with large buildings and gates. A paved security road passes right alongside; a few soldiers wearing yarmulkes and also female soldiers change shifts.
15:25 Irtach – We were surprised to see, for a change, that laborers returning home after their workday in Israel don’t have to go through the inspection building, and from the exit from Israel go directly to the revolving gates at the entrance to the West Bank – without being inspected!
We were told that it’s been like this for two days.
But, meanwhile, there a new sign forbidding photography. The civilian security staff demanded we meet with the manager of the facility. He demanded we erase the photographs. He said photography is prohibited for security reasons.
On the other hand, we were able to tell him that on the other side – that is, at the revolving gates at the entrance to Israel – ten people have been waiting more than an hour to enter the facility for inspection.
He promised to look into it.
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.
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Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)
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The checkpoint is for Palestinians only. It is the main barrier to the passage of workers from the northern West Bank to Israel. Workers with a permit to work in Israel and also for trade (with appropriate permissions), medicine, and visiting prisoners. One can cross the checkpoint only on foot. The checkpoint is located north of Road 557 and south of Tulkarm. Operated by a civil security company, opening hours: between 4:00 and 19:00 on weekdays. As members of Machsom Watch, we began our shifts to this location in 2007. We arrived before it opened at 4 in the morning and report since, on the harsh conditions and the long and crowded queues of workers. The workers who pass by continue their journey by transportation to work throughout Israel. In the first period of its activity, about 3,000 and then 5,000 people passed through this checkpoint every day. Due to the small number of checking points and arbitrary delays for long periods of time in the "rooms", workers feared losing their transportation. Hence workers leave their homes at 2:30 at night to be among the first. Today, 15,000 pass and the transition is faster. Workers are still leaving their homes very early to get past the checkpoint at 7 p.m. In an adjacent compound, there is a terminal for the transfer of goods on a commercial scale, using the back-to-back method.
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Jubara (Kafriat)
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The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.
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