Habla, Irtah (Sha’ar Efrayim)
4:55 When we arrived, a large crowd had already passed through the checkpoint. At the side by the separation barrier, the gates had just opened after a pause. The turnstiles worked for a minute, and then shut down for five minutes. The people in line waited patiently, without pushing.
5:05 On the Israeli side, another section of the wall around the new commercial building has come down. The chain that we noticed two weeks ago, blocking the exit from the terminal, is also gone. There's no pressure at the exit turnstile. Two people we chose to observe got through the terminal in 16 – 17 minutes.
5:25 Near the separation barrier again, the gates opened as we approached. The flow of people is orderly. We picked two more people to watch for.
5:30 At the exit, there's a crowd of people trying to leave the terminal. The side door is opened and the pressure eases. The woman we chose to watch passed through in ten minutes, the man took fifteen. Someone complained about crowding within the terminal, but someone else said he hoped it would stay as good as now.
5:45 We left for Hable.
6:15 As we pulled up, so did the military vehicle come to open the gate. The soldiers acted quickly and efficiently, and at 6:23 the first Palestinians entered the computer room. They got out at 6:26, and the flow of people continued smoothly. We left at 6:30.
Habla
See all reports for this place-
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 SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
-
Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)
See all reports for this place-
The checkpoint is for Palestinians only. It is the main barrier to the passage of workers from the northern West Bank to Israel. Workers with a permit to work in Israel and also for trade (with appropriate permissions), medicine, and visiting prisoners. One can cross the checkpoint only on foot. The checkpoint is located north of Road 557 and south of Tulkarm. Operated by a civil security company, opening hours: between 4:00 and 19:00 on weekdays. As members of Machsom Watch, we began our shifts to this location in 2007. We arrived before it opened at 4 in the morning and report since, on the harsh conditions and the long and crowded queues of workers. The workers who pass by continue their journey by transportation to work throughout Israel. In the first period of its activity, about 3,000 and then 5,000 people passed through this checkpoint every day. Due to the small number of checking points and arbitrary delays for long periods of time in the "rooms", workers feared losing their transportation. Hence workers leave their homes at 2:30 at night to be among the first. Today, 15,000 pass and the transition is faster. Workers are still leaving their homes very early to get past the checkpoint at 7 p.m. In an adjacent compound, there is a terminal for the transfer of goods on a commercial scale, using the back-to-back method.
-