Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Tue 16.3.10, Morning
The territories are under closure from Friday, 19.3. No entry to Israel.
7:00 Habla agricultural crossing
This gate is open as usual during the closure – giving farmers access to their land in the seam zone.
About 30 Palestinians waiting to cross. Today the inspecting is faster and simpler that we’ve ever seen at this checkpoint: A soldier at the entrance lets groups of five through and two soldiers wait for them four meters further on, on the way to the exit to the land. Each Palestinian shows and ID card and a permit, the soldier (one of them) looks at it, returns it and tells the person to go through. Sometimes looks at what’s in the bag. No computer entry, no inspection in the room. 25 people went through in 10 minutes.
7:25 Ras a-Tiya checkpoint
During the past few days there’s been a protest and school strike here because of a new demand by the brigade commander that female teachers have to be inspected each day in the inspection room.
A school bus enters the village, a soldier gets on and checks the passengers. A 16-year-old youth has to get off and go through the inspection room, where he also shows his documents.
We left – Tom and Smadar are here to see what happens today with the female teachers.
7:35 Eliyahu crossing
About 30 people waiting to cross to the west. There’s a turnstile and an inspection room. Most of those being checked are people on foot whose employers will pick them up on the other side of the checkpoint.
Three people at a time enter the room, and come out 2-3 minutes later. Someone who just came out (7:50)said that two female soldiers inside are doing the checks. He arrived at the checkpoint at 6:30.
Yesterday, according to him and to his companions, it took a very long time to go through.
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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