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Habla

Place: Habla
Observers: Ruti Katz, Chana Abiram. Translator:  Charles K.
Aug-03-2016
| Morning

 

06:05-07:30

The checkpoint was open in both directions.  The procedure:  waiting outside the gates, five people enter the area between the fences at a time.  They wait at the revolving gate until inspection of the previous five, in the inspection building, has been completed.  Then they enter and exit a few minutes later.  Those on bicycles stand them next to the path leading to the building.  When they exit they give their ID to the soldier in the guard post adjoining the metal gate leading to the plant nurseries, pick up their bicycles and then their ID.  The soldier rebukes those who fail to carry out the procedure automatically.

And if you think people have grown accustomed to the occupation and that it has become transparent also to those under occupation, that’s not the case.  A man coming through the checkpoint addressed us in Hebrew, describing the occupation’s impact on social and economic life – high unemployment, and a rising divorce rate as a result of low incomes.  “One day it will explode.”

While the checkpoint was open, a car with UN plates arrived carrying Palestinian women.  A few minutes later a second car arrived, driven by a man.  Both waited in vain and the checkpoint closed without them having crossed.  People who’d gone through said the passengers in the UN cars came and waited for a permit, which the soldiers were to have received.  It didn’t arrive (of course) by the time the checkpoint was to close.

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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.

       

      Habla. The gate is open for vehicle crossing
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