Eyal Crossing, Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Wed 5.5.10, Morning
Translation: Suzanne O.
Eyal
4:30 a.m.
The crossing opens at 4:00 a.m., and we see labourers who have already crossed.
We turned to go to the 'button' and two 'managers' immediately appear and stop us. When we claimed that there is an agreement that we can enter with a guard they reply that that is all fair and good but they do not have a guard available to be with us. We waited a bit, and then approached the fence. It was still dark but we saw a long queue waiting quietly.
We talked to the labourers coming out: a few said that the inspection was long and hard, one of them advised us to stand inside the building. He told us that it is very crowded inside and the inspection alone took 40 minutes. Other labourers said that it had gone well.
6:00 a.m.
We went to the fence again, no one supervised us, the queue had disappeared and there was a steady trickle of people.
Chabla
6:40 a.m.
The roadblock opened; there was a queue of about 100. 5 people at a time go in for an inspection which lasts about 2 minutes on average. The first to come out was a family with a child suffering from cancer. They are going to Schneider Hospital and a friend will come to take them there.
Ras Atiya
7:15 a.m.
On our way we noticed that the gate in the wall is still not operational. When we arrived at Ras Atiya we saw the school buses leaving the village.
The check point is open; the teachers are inspected at the entrance and at the exit. In order to lead them to the gate the army has added a fence which separates the pedestrians from the cars. The inspection of cars and their passengers is the old one: the passengers alight and walk to the check point; the driver takes the vehicle across and goes to be inspected.
The school buses arrive: the older children alight for inspection. Military policemen board the bus for a moment and then the buses enter and wait for the inspection of the children and adults to be completed.
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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