Habla checkpoint is open. Qalqiliya checkpoint is closed.
Habla checkpoint : Opens at 13:00. The soldiers received us politely, that is, they spoke with us and we explained what our purpose was in coming to the checkpoint and we had a bit of a political conversation.
The soldiers have masks on their faces apparently so that no one can photograph them. When we photographed the fence they were very disturbed and claimed that it was forbidden. However, their telephone complaint to some authorities seems not to have gotten a positive response.
We met with Hanina who lives in Qalqiliya and knows us for years. He goes by foot. He complained that for months now he has been forbidden to go through on his bicycle and he has to walk every day by foot to his sheep who were left at the nursery and he has not been allowed to bring them back to Habla where he lives. This story about the sheep is an old one, at least for 3 years when one day they simply did not allow him to bring them back while, back at home, there were kids waiting for their mothers to nurse them.
A private car came by which they had sent to cross the checkpoint which is above the main road to Phalestine, belonging to a man from the Ramadin tribe who goes through every day to Qalqiliya or Phalestine and lives in the “seam area”. Simple harassment. A lot of vehicles went by and a few pedestrians in both directions. The gate closed at 13:50, earlier than the agreed upon time, which is 14:00.
From there we travelled to the Qalqiliya checkpoint 1117. The checkpoint was closed and they told us that it rarely opens, if there is a problem with in opening the Habla checkpoint. We photographed it and we were looking at it for a few minutes when a pair of female soldiers arrived and told us we were in a closed military zone (the road along the fence). Since we had finished our work there we turned around and travelled back home.
Location Description
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.
Nina SebaMar-03-2025Habla checkpoint: the checkpoint is open.
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Qalqiliya new CP
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Qalqilya new CP
A checkpoint at the southwestern end of the separation wall between Qalqilya and the nursery enclave on Route 55. Observed by Checkpoint Watch in February 2021. Possibly related to works to widen Route 444 and the bridge being built.
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