Eyal Crossing, ‘Anabta, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Mon 17.8.09, Morning
06:40 Eyal many workers are waiting for transportation. The workers who leave now have arrived around 06:00 at the CP. We met two of our colleagues who were there on their shift, so we went on our way.
07:05 Qalqiliya – the passage is free. There are soldiers at the guard post.
07:15 Ras-a-Tiya There are no queues. Workers who passed immediately went on a car to work at a plant nursery on the Israeli side of the fence. According to them the CP was opened with a delay of half an hour. The passage was accomplished without delays.
08:50 Antaba – the passage is free, in most cases, with soldiers watching in the guard cabins. A soldier requested us shouting through the megaphone to stop taking photographs (Mikey photographed all the time because she prepares a reportage for a Dutch newspaper about the influence of the CPs on the economy). We explained that we were allowed to take photos and Mikey continued doing that. A private car with a father, mother and children is stopped for checking, all the family is made to leave the car and wait in the sun. After the car has been checked they re-enter it and drive away. Later the soldiers stop every car coming from Tulkarm for a series of short questions. A car is stopped inside the CP and two very elderly persons leave it. All the doors are opened, and even those of the luggage compartment, for checking, their papers are checked and the queue grows, and then they are released. In the meantime there is a very long queue, but a few minutes later the soldiers stopped checking each car, and the queue dissolved. Thus most of the cars waited for about 10 minutes. This can't be called a Free Passage! From time to time a car arrives which doesn't know that it is now allowed to pass, and stops. The soldiers don't even pay attention to the fact that the car is waiting and only after some moments remember it and wave it on, or the driver decides to date and proceed slowly and hesitantly.
09:30 Jubara gate 753
The place is quiet. Every person passing at the gate is registered.
'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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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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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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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Azzun: Enclosed by a high fence and the gate to the village is closed
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