Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Tue 21.9.10, Morning
06:40 The Eliyahu gate is empty.
06:45 Habla. Two buses at the crossing. The first is turned back because its permit doesn’t specify this checkpoint. The second goes through. Some calls to the DCO, and at 07:20 the first also goes through, but not before two mothers who wanted a ride have to get off. In the background, laborers who are angry at the delays are being “educated.”
Photo: Means of transportation
Photo: “Education”
Photo: The Holy Trinity: A driver, a believer and an officer
07:50 A group of Bedouin pupils arrives on foot as we are leaving; we make sure they get through safely.
08:00 The Eliyahu crossing is empty.
08:15 On our way to Jayyous north we meet John, one of the ecumenicals, who complains about misleading information regarding the time the gate opens – it’s already closed.
08:25 Jayyous south. Stella, one of the ecumenicals, complains of a delay opening the gate. We drive there. They also complain about misleading information regarding the opening times. There are two shepherds and their flocks, and three farmers. A few minutes later the army vehicle arrives, and after a few minutes getting organized the people cross. A talk with Stella reveals a bleak picture – 80 applications submitted for the olive harvest, in the hope that twenty will be approved. She says the number of approvals declines every year. Maybe, before October, it’s worth contacting the DCOs systematically to investigate what’s happening?
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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