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Habla

Place: Habla
Observers: Ruti K., Hanna A.; Translator: Judith Green
Aug-25-2016
| Morning

Habla

“Where is your heart?” one soldier called out to another when that soldier expelled a youth who was standing near the fences on the Habla side and asked to cross over the agricultural fields of the village. True, the clock showed that it was a few minutes after 7:30 but there were still people waiting to finish their inspection.  And, while the youth was denied passage (maybe he had hoped that the soldier who expelled him actually had a heart…) an older man arrived from the direction of the fields and nurseries, driving a wagon.  He hoped that they would allow him to return home but he was also denied passage.  And, as A. said to us later, “They (soldiers) are late,  but as to us…”

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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.

       

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