Habla, Jubara (Kafriat), Ras ‘Atiya, Te’enim Crossing, Tue 6.4.10, Morning
6:45 Habla agricultural gate should open now. More than 40 people waiting to leave the town for the seam line, as well as a number of vehicles.
Two soldiers and an officer are here and have already opened the gate, but the person who sits in the inspection booth hasn’t arrived.
Everyone waits…
6:50 The officer makes a phone call. “She’s on her way,” he’s told. He doesn’t take our suggestion to let people through after inspecting them manually. Yael called the DCO to inform them of the delay.
6:55 A female MP arrives, shuts herself in the booth. She apologizes to no one.
Everyone waits…
7:05 The soldiers allow the first five Palestinians to approach the turnstile.
Everyone waits…
7:08 The MP lets three of them through the turnstile.
7:13 The first three emerge. Every minute is important in the morning, and they aren’t going to work in an office, but to work the land!
Why only three? At 7:32, the officer enters the room, and apparently convinces her to let through five at one time.
7:35 Five Palestinians enter, emerging 6 minutes later.
From the time the checkpoint opened, until 7:41, only 20 people went through!!!!!
A person exiting tells us that every day the checkpoint fails to open and let people through on time, but, on the other hand, if someone is late returning, even by a minute or two, he’s not allowed to enter.
At 8:00 they’re supposed to close; we didn’t remain to confirm this. There were still 40 people on line when we left.
Vehicles and wagons also go through, the soldiers carefully inspecting every compartment and opening every door.
One of the people coming through asked why they don’t move to daylight savings time, open at 6:30? Opening at 6:00 would be even better.
7:55 Ras A-Tiya checkpoint. The female teachers struck here because of the new order requiring them to go through the inspection booth. Since then, though, they’ve been going through the booth.
When we arrived, six teachers who had to leave the village to reach the nearby school aren’t able to go through – they’re prevented by the DCO (maybe because yesterday they came in through a different gate?)
We learn that from those who’ve already come through, and see the teachers at the checkpoint. We call the DCO.
8:05 The teachers come through. They’re late, and haven’t time to talk.
We stayed a little longer and to watch the routine – exiting entering undergoing inspection removing inserting opening closing being questioned answering rummaging releasing.
8:30 A jeep at the entrance to Azzun.
8:45 Two jeeps at Jit junction.
8:55 A jeep at the junction of Routes 60 and 57 (the road to the barrels checkpoint). He wasn’t there on our way back.
9:05 Anabta – No soldiers at the checkpoint.
9:30 Te’anim checkpoint
The police on the Israeli side are inspecting people coming in – Israeli license plates. Almost no traffic on the Palestinian side.
We asked to enter Jubara. (“Do you live there?,” the soldier asks.) A polite soldier unlocks the gate for us, and locks it after us. “Honk when you want to leave.”
The village is quiet; one or two cars driving on the road. A grocery is open. We drove through the whole village, reaching the agricultural gate on the other side.
9:45 The Jubara agricultural gate
A vehicle on the way into the village is detained – it’s carrying a water pump that lacks permission to go through. The soldier at the checkpoint calls the DCO for approval.
Two detainees are suddenly visible among the concrete blocks on the side of the checkpoint! The soldier orders them to sit back down and lower their heads. In reply to our question, he said that they are “present illegally,” and he’s already called the DCO to see whether they’re wanted. We gave them water and asked how long they’ve been there – half an hour.
A jeep is parked on the other side of the checkpoint, about 500 meters down the road at the turnoff to Tulkarm, where the A-Ras checkpoint was once located, and soldiers inspect every car going past. At least five cars wait on each side. There are also two cars which have obviously been detained. We weren’t allowed to go there, and all we could see from a distance was that the detained vehicles had been released (including a taxi that had waited at least 20 minutes).
The truck carrying the pump was permitted to go through; the detainees are still sitting in the sun, heads bowed.
10:25 We left.
Habla
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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 SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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Jubara (Kafriat)
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The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.
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Ras 'Atiya
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The checkpoint is presently on the Separation Barrier roadway, manned and open 12 hours a day, from 6:30 to 18:30. West of it is the large Seam Line village whose school is attended by children from the nearby villages east of the Barrier and many of whose inhabitants have permits to work in Israel. How long this checkpoint will remain in place is unknown, since construction of the Separation Wall, just by the settlement of Alfe Menashe, east of the present Separation Barrier, is endless, as is the creation of a new road and, obviously, a new checkpoint.
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Te'enim Crossing
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Te'enim Crossing The Figs checkpoint, located on Road 557, east of the Green Line and the Ephraim Checkpoint (Road 444), is a vehicle crossing, open 24/7 all year round. It serves the Israeli population, including those authorized to enter the Palestinian Authority. The passage of foreigners holding international passports recognized by the State of Israel is approved. In exceptional cases will the passage of a Palestinian be allowed here.
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