Habla agricultural checkpoint: there is no passage to nurseries and plantations
Telephone reporting with Palestinians farmers
The situation is dire – each nursery has two men irrigating and in charge of urgent care. The groves in the seam zone are not tended and the guavas are dropping to the ground.
I spoke with two nursery owners who live in Qalqiliya. The agricultural checkpoints leading to the seam zone are closed and locked. After extensive discussion with the army, it conceded to place two people in each nursery so it would not be destroyed and they would guard it. There is water in the nurseries, and the guards receive food from the Bedouins in Arab Ramadin who are permitted to cross Eliyahu Checkpoint and buy food stuffs for them.
The groves themselves are not taken care of, and the problem is acute especially for the guava groves where fruit is ripening and falling to the ground.
Exit from Qalqiliya to the West Bank is free and there are those who also exit to harvest groves inside the occupied territory, but not in the seam zone.
Right now the owners are trying to change the guards in the nurseries who have already been there for an entire week. Permission to do so has not been attained so far.
(Incidentally, Palestinian citizens of Israel come to Qalqiliya freely to do their shopping, as they always have)
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.
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