Eliyahu Crossing, Ras ‘Atiya, Thu 29.4.10, Afternoon
Translation: Hanna K.
14:00 Ras 'Atiya
L. the military policeman doesn’t remember whether in the morning the children and the schoolteachers were asked to leave the bus for checking ("I didn't put any stress on that").
After a few moments' conversation they ask us not to stand in the area of the CP.
14:10 Two small children, aged about eight, with schoolbags, pass over to Ras a Tira, the military policeman and another soldier come up to the children, who open their bags while the soldiers check them.
14:20 The soldiers chase away the children who had been waiting in the shed behind the CP and insist that we should stand behind the fence. A woman and two small children (4,5) arrive at the CP.
The children remain alone while the mother is sent to be checked in the building…
A man with a tender is detained for ten minutes while the soldiers thoroughly, gravely and earnestly check all the car's appliances.
14:45 Eliyahu Gate – a few Palestinians on their way to the West Bank are detained by the police. There are no cars in the queue. There are three cars behind the CP.
The entrance to Azzun is open.
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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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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