Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Mon 19.4.10, Afternoon
Habla, Agricultural Gate
15:15 – The gate is closed. The only person here, an old man who came back from work and has been waiting for half an hour already, will have to wait until 16:45 for the gate to open.
Ras Atiya checkpoint
15:30 – Two men from Dab'a whose car is inside the checkpoint are waiting. It turns out they have bought accessories for fixing a toilet and the soldiers demand that they have a permit of the DCO [District Coordination Office of the IDF Civil Administration that handles passage permits] to show that they may transfer the contents, all of which fits into a small car. We talk to the DCO officer on duty (following Grisha's advice), and when we talk to the soldiers, it turns out that the men do have a permit but only for transferring a toilet and not additional accessories like tiles, taps and sink. Such a "substantial" list of equipment deserves a special permission and coordination with the DCO. It takes another phone call to Tayasir, where they promise to take care of it. When we leave at 16:05, the permit hasn't arrived yet. We call again round 16:30 and find out that the car has passed.
Eliyahu Passage
16:20 – The passage is manned by soldiers as usual but otherwise the place is empty and quiet. A few cars with Israeli licence plates "return home", to the settlements.
Habla Gate
16:25 – The gate is half open when we get back there. The soldiers have just arrived. The man who was waiting here before is still here and there is another man with him, only one (there is no traffic of people due to the holiday and the "closure") [blanket restriction of passage regardless of permits]. The two waiting men tell us that now they are waiting for the blond woman soldier to arrive. When we ask the soldiers when the gate is supposed to open, they suggest that we call the Brigade to find out.
The gate opens on time at 16:45.
To sum up: It has been a short round. Holiday and closure. Few comings and goings at the gates and the checkpoints. The few Palestinian residents we met wished us a happy holiday. Feeling embarrassed, we kept silent.
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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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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