Eyal Crossing, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Thu 18.2.10, Afternoon
Natanya translating.
14.30 Eyal. Few people at this hour entering the West Bank and there is no line.
14.40 The agricultural gate at Habla.
2 women, 4 men, 3 carts with horses who have gathering the harvest from the fields …all have been waiting here for the hour of 16.45 so that they should be able to pass. They are bitter that they have to wait here and their home is 100 metres away at Habla on the other side of the fence. They have to go back through the checkpoint because they passed here in the mornig. They say that when the gate opens 200 workers pass through to work in the fields.
15.35 Ras Atiah.
A small truck with a cow and two private cars wait to leave the village. Anothr small truck is detained in the parking lot. The owner of the grocery shop from Ras-A-Tirah who has no permit for the specific goods he has with him.They send him back to Ras Atiah to go through a recheck. The cow passes through and also the private cars after careful checking.
A woman waiting for a lift with two small children is surprisingly friendly to us…a broad smile and tells the children to say hellow and to give us their hands….we feel that we are ambassadors of peace. The children will maybe remember that they met ordinary Israelis, maybe nice people and not just soldiers and settlers and we admire the strength of the woman who does not despair under the occupation.
16.15 Eliyhua Crossing. 3 posts are open and each has five cars waiting.
16.30 Al Funduq.
We met the head of the village committee and his aid and heard about their terrible problems about building in the village (areas B, C) and of the demolition orders on many buildings.
Karin takes it on herself to document the developments.
17.30 On the way to Israel.
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14:30 אייל
בשעה זו מעט עוברים לתוך הגדה . אין תור .
14:40 שער חקלאי חבלה
2 נשים , 4 גברים , 3 עגלות עם סוסים עליהן חציר שאספו בשדה – כולם כבר כאן מחכים לשעה 16:45 כדי לעבור . ממורמרים שצריכים לחכות פה והבית מרחק 100 מ' , בחבלה , מעבר לגדר .
הם חייבים לחזור דרך המחסום הזה כי פה עברו בבוקר. לדבריהם , בזמן פתיחת השער עוברים פה 200 פועלים לעבודה בשדות .
15:35 ראס עטיה
משאית קטנה ובה פרה וכן שתי מכוניות פרטיות מחכות לצאת מהכפר . עוד משאית קטנה מעוכבת במגרש ובעל מכולת מראס א-טירה שאין לו אישור לסחורה הספציפית שאיתו, מעוכבים.
16:00 – מחזירים אותו לתוך ראס-עטיה, ע"מ לעבור בדיקה חוזרת.
הפרה עוברת , גם מכוניות הנוסעים , אחרי בדיקות מדוקדקות .
אשה אחת שמחכה לטרמפ עם שני פצפונים מפתיעה בחביבות שלה אלינו – מחייכת בפה מלא , מורה לילדים להגיד שלום , להושיט יד …. אני מרגישה שאנחנו שגרירות של שלום…. הילדים אולי יזכרו שפגשו ישראלים רגילים , אולי נעימים , ולא רק חיילים ומתנחלים , ואני מלאת הערכה לכוח של אישה כזו לא להתייאש נוכח הכיבוש .
16:15 שער אליהו
3 עמדות פתוחות , בכל אחת 5 מכוניות לכיוון מערב , מחכות .
16:30 אל-פונדוק
פגשנו את ראש המועצה ועוזרו ושמענו על הבעיות הקשות שלהם לבנות בתחומי הכפר ( אזורי C , B ) ועל צווי ההריסה שיש על מבנים רבים . קרין לקחה על עצמה לתעד את ההתפתחויות .
17:30 בדרך לישראל
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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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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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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