Habla, Nabi Ilyas
Habla.
Without prior planning we arrived at the plant nurseries and there we met our friends. They were agitated and told us that the carrying on at the CP during last week and the behaviourof the soldiers was annoying, and pointed out that the situation was deteriorating and had been especially severe during the last days. There is a great delay in the opening of the gates both in the morning and at noon, whereas they are meticulous regarding the closing times, and thus shorten the period during which the gates are open.
The explanation: there aren't enough soldiers. They are only four and they still have other gates to open. Furthermore, the soldiers of the unit behave rudely and disrespectfully towards the Palestinians and try to humiliate them. There are also cases of provocations on the part of the soldiers towards the Palestinians who try to keep cool and not be drawn into violent reactions.
This morning the soldiers arrived late and opened the CP at 07:45. As a non- violent protestation, about 100 Palestinians who were on the spot, became organized and stood at a distance from the gate and refused to pass through it. The soldiers were surprised and became stressed, and at the same time the activists contacted the Palestinian DCO as well as the Israeli one, and requested for the umpteenth time that they should be summoned, and their protestations and demands be listened to.
Contrary to the previous cases, they were promised a meeting in the coming days.
Nebi Elias.At the meeting which had been fixed beforehand with the expert for infrastructures in the Qalqiliya area, two items were discussed: A. the problem of the sewerage which flows from time to time from Alfei Menashe onto the agricultural lands at
The ongoing danger for children and elderly people, when crossing road
In the course of the conversation about the cruelty of the occupation, an event which happened three years ago was also raNeised. The inhabitants had connected a well in the village to the electricity system in order to make the drawing of water more efficient. On the next day the army came, destroyed the connection and confiscated the electricity poles (13 in number) which served to connect the well, and in spite of the inhabitants' demand to get the poles back, the army refused to do so. Some time ago the residents got a claim from the Civil Administration to pay 20.000 Shekel for the storage of the poles.
Israeli justice!
A-Nabi Elias
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A-Nabi Elias this is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, east of Qalqilia on Road 55, north-east of Alfei Menashe colony and west of Karnei Shomron colony and the Palestinian city of Nablus. As of 2016, the village was populated by 1,458 inhabitants.
Near the village is a maqam (holy site memorializing a sanctified person) - the prophet Elisha. Until 2021 Road 55 crossed the village. Then a bypass road was paved through olive groves that were sequestered from the villagers. Consequently, the farmers were left with small olive groves that they could not access nor cultivate. Inhabitants protested against the road for weeks, supported by peace activists, but nothing helped and the road is now a given fact.
The village's main street had been a shopping center for all residents, including colonists. We even saw a Kashrut (kosher food) inspector in a butcher shop close to the falafel stand… The bypass road, according to tradesmen, has impacted their businesses and clients, while others claim that there are customers now for parking has become easier.
Alfei Menashe and Tzofim colonies nibble at the village lands from the north and south and get closer to it all the time. Colonists of Alfei Menashe have outdone themselves, sending their surplus sewage from the oxygenation pools toward a-Nabi Elias land, even reaching the houses.
The villagers are known as seekers of peace. For years there was no hostility towards Israelis. On the contrary, we were always welcomed warmly and stopped there to enjoy their delicious, inexpensive falafel.
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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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