Habla, Mon 12.9.11, Morning
Route no. 1 (partial)
.Habla
07:00 The gate has just opened. About 20 people are in line; while they’re inspected more people arrive and the line stays the same. After about ten people were checked an argument erupts; the soldiers tried to mediate and briefly stopped letting people through. We asked one of the laborers where he works. He said he works on his family’s land, but to reach it he must make a long detour on foot or take a taxi. At seven-thirty two buses carrying schoolchildren arrived. Some even got out of the bus while they waited.
Jayyus
08:00 We met Na’im at the entrance to the village. He told us about the problem they’re facing – obtaining permits for the olive harvest, which begins in two weeks. The army requires the farmers to submit anew all the documents proving ownership (even though it received them last year). The bureaucracy wears the farmers down.
Entry permits to the groves will be granted to the landowners and some of their children, not to grandchildren. This decree makes it difficult for them to pick the entire crop. In two weeks they’ll find out how many have gotten permits and how many have been denied.
Falamya checkpoint
09:00 After some U-turns we reached the Falamya checkpoint. A flock of sheep arrived at the gate who had to be patient until the shepherd was inspected.
A truck came from the fields loaded with sacks of za’atar which is grown in large quantities, dried and exported through Jordan to Arab countries. Israel doesn’t import from here.
We met an elderly couple who arrived at the gate and repeated how hard it is to get harvest permits for family members.
The checkpoint commander approached us to find out what we were doing in an encouraging manner and we began talking. He’s from kibbutz Giv’at Haim. A soldier at the checkpoint called to him and when he went over to him said “Why are you talking to them.”
From Falamya we drove home via Huga and Funduq.
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.
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