Habla - a Palestinian's initiative speeds up the crossing
The opening is at 7:10.
7:00 We arrived, then came a children’s bus. It entered at 7:20.
The bus passed without being checked. A man on a bicycle arrived and on the porter there was a birthday gift for his daughter.
As we are new in Habla we now learned the function of a Palestinian who acts on behalf of the plant nurseries association.
In the past he arranged the list of the queue for entering the checking area. Today he takes care of the persons leaving Habla by vehicles.
He passes the permits to the soldiers at the gate and reads out the ID numbers. In this way he speeds up their departure. The soldiers still check the car. He speaks Hebrew (and of course Arabic). His function is defined as that of a “mediator”…as beyond this gate there are 11 plant nurseries of Palestinians they formed an association and pay him for his service.
A young man who has a work permit in the plant nurseries area but a prevention to enter Israel, approached us. Another young man who was caught without a permit in Israel, and is now prevented from entering Israel for a Year. We gave them Sylvia’s details.
We got details about the scope of work at the plant nurseries: 480 persons work on the Habla side and about the same number on the Qalqilya side.
Habla CP (1393)
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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.
Ronit Dahan-RamatiAug-31-2026Habla. The gate is open
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