Habla, Ras ‘Atiya, Mon 26.4.10, Morning
Summary: Repeated problems at Habla gate, causing late opening in the morning.
6.45 Habla gate. The gate is closed. The soldier explains that because of a technical fault in the Hummer the military policewoman is arriving late.
6.55 The Hummer with the woman soldier arrives. They start opening the gate but there is a problem with the lock which a few soldiers and officer try unsuccessfully to solve. A man waiting tells us that recently this has been a recurrent problem.
7.17 At last the gate opens. At the Palestinian side there seem to be some scores of men and women waiting, as well as a number of cars, a truck and a tractor. (We cannot see clearly from where we stand.)
7.21 The first workers cross the checkpoint. Checking takes some 5 minutes – they are checked in batches of 5.
Ras a-Taieh. A bus with children enters the village. The driver gets out for checking.
Next to Shevut Ami, we see three figures under an olive tree, apparently armed.At the entrance to Kedumim, at the trampiadot on both sides of the road, there are soldiers and a military jeep.
The road leading to Shave Shomron opposite the old Haviot checkpoint is blocked.At the entrance to Yizhar, at the trampiadah, we see a Border Police jeep with soldiers beside it. Next to them stands a settler with tefillin.
Huwwara. Traffic flows in both directions, without a queue. 2 heavily loaded trucks have to return towards Nablus. Later they are seen exiting at the Awarta checkpoint. A tender carrying sheep is allowed to pass through the Hawarra checkpoint.
Beit Furik. The checkpoint is not manned, except for the watchtower.
Kfar Huwwara . We see an IDF infantry patrol in the village.
10.00 Zatra junction. Traffic flows in all directions. At the west-east entrance, a doghandler checks a taxi after the driver and passenger have got out. In the parking lot, a Palestinian car is examined by police who have arrived in a police jeep.
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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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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