Eyal Crossing, ‘Anabta, Deir Sharaf, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim), Jubara (Kafriat), Ras ‘Atiya, Tue 20.10.09, Afternoon
Translator: Charles K.
Habala
14:35 The gate is closed; there are no soldiers.
Ras Atiya
14:50 The gate is open (12 hours a day). The soldiers try to explain what it means that Palestinians are living in Israeli territory and stress that they themselves don’t understand either. When we ask about the new road being paved to the east and the wall being very energetically built there, they say they think that an additional Palestinian village will be added to the area of Ras Atiya.
Deir Sharaf
15:30 Polite soldiers explain to Sami how to get to Nablus by car because people on foot aren’t allowed to go through the checkpoint.
Anabta
15:50 Traffic flows, no delays or inspections. We wonder who the two people selling coffee are waiting for? Apparently traffic doesn’t always flow.
Jubara
16:05 This is the hour when people return to the village, and leave it, on foot and in vehicles. A large group of soldiers. They inspect everyone, including bags and packages. They inspect the trunks of cars, but don’t make women and children get out. Someone who’s been in Israel without a permit arrives at the same time as we do, and is made to sit off to the side and wait.Many military vehicles stop, and then continue. It turns out that an exercise for reservists is underway in this heat.
Irtah
16:50 Only one booth is operating and the line quickly lengthens, at least 200 people. We call the DCO who promise to “look into it.”
17:00 Nothing happens. The laborers push forward when the turnstile opens and even get dangerously trapped inside. They yell to those at the gate to open more booths. We call again. Again they say they’ll look into it.
17:10 A second booth opens. The line quickly disappears.
The laborers ask us to arrange for this checkpoint to open at 4:00 AM, like at Eyal, and not at 4:30.
Eyal
17:35 No line at all, the few laborers who arrive enter quickly.
'Anabta CP
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'Anabta CP
The checkpoint is located south of the village of 'Anabta, at the intersection of Road 60 (leading to Nablus at the entrance to Area A), with Road (57, 557, 5576) facing west towards the Einav settlement and the checkpoint at the exit from the West Bank - Figs checkpoint. Until 2010 we used to watch the intersection and report the long columns created due to a slow inspection of the vehicles in both directions.
Oct-28-2011Anabta checkpoint 24.10.11
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Deir Sharaf checkpoint
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Deir Sharaf checkpoint is located west of Nablus and south of the settlement of Shavei Shomron, at the entrance to the village of Deir Sharaf on the road leading to Nablus. The checkpoint was activated in early March 2009 after the Beit Iba checkpoint was closed. Palestinians are allowed through the checkpoint , but not for Israelis. Unlike the checkpoints leading to Qalqilya and Tulkarm, crossing of Israeli Palestinians is only allowed on Saturdays.
Nina SebaFeb-28-2024Deir Sharaf - the entrance to the village
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Eyal Checkpoint / Crossing
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Eyal Checkpoint is intended for pedestrians and Palestinians only. This is the main barrier for workers to cross from the center of the West Bank. Workers with a work permit to enter Israel can pass through it for trade, medicine, and visiting prisoners. The checkpoint was built on the Green Line north of Qalqilya in the separation barrier that surrounds the city. The checkpoint began operating in 2004 by the military. Opening hours on weekdays from 04:00 to 19:00. We started holding shifts there in 2007. We arrived at the checkpoint before it opened at 4 in the morning. We reported on the difficult conditions and the long and cramped queues of workers who must continue their journey by commuting to work throughout Israel. At the end of June 2009, the checkpoint was operated by a civil security company, The transit time has been gradually shortened, today it is faster, but the Palestinians still have to arrive very early to make it to the transportation. Usually, about 15,000 people pass through.
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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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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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