‘Izbet alTabib, Habla, Kufr Thulth
10:15, Eliyahu CP
4 cars undergoing checks, the light trafiic is moving.
Izbet Tabib
A new road and curb under construction. The school, under threat of demolition, is still functioning.
Thulat
There are 20 landowners who have not ploughed yet. They recounted their (so far failed) attemtps to have the seasonal gate 1262 open for a week now, to allow them to plough their fields while the land is still moist.
Next to the gate in the west village fence, our friend M. points out how the barrier, rather than follow the wadi around the village's lands, goes up through the olive groves, destroying the trees in its way. A law suit against the barrier placement has been pending for 13 years, but meanwhile 1200 of their acres are on the other side of the barrier.
From another vantage point we can see the illegal settlement El Matan. The road, says M., is closed to Palestinians. He says it is about to be widened, at the cost of more land theft.
Habla
We couldn't obtain formal opening hours for the gates. Based on the Palestinians' report, the opening hours are:
Morning 06:30-07:30
Noon 13:15-14:00
Evening 16:30-17:10
13:10. The soldiers are here, and 12 people, a truck, and 2 wagons are waiting.
13:15 The gate opens on time. 2 women pass first, then the first quintet. The truck driver with his load of empty flower pots is denied passage.
13:30 The first quintet from the other side passes, followed by 2 pickups, 2 trucks loaded with seedlings, and 3 private vehicles.
H. passes with a wagonload of feed for his sheep, which he is not allowed to take across the gate.
A minibus full of kids passes, followed by another pickup and 2 trucks.
13:45 No queue. We leave.
'Izbet a-Tabib
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'Izbet a-Tabib
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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.
Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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Kufr Thulth
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Kufr Thulth is located in the western part of the West Bank, in the Qalqiliya district. According to archeological evidence, this village was inhabited as early as the Early Bronze Age. Findings have been dated there to Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. The village is situated on road 446, south of the Palestinian town of Azoun and north of Qanah River. It numbers 5,606 inhabitants as of 2017.
After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the built-up southern part of the village was categorized as Area B, comprising about 11% of its area, but nearly all of its farmland is classified as Area C.
Israel has confiscated 367 dunams of the village lands, and the area of neighboring village Arab Al Hula, in order to construct the settler-colonies of Karnei Shomron, Ginot Shomron, Ma’ale Shomron, and Immanuel, as well as the Separation Fence (splitting the village itself), and prevented villagers to access their farmlands lying near the settler-colonies. The authorities declared the area a nature reserve, and thus prevented access or any tending that would change the nature of the local land.
The Israeli army and the settler-colonists continue to harass the Palestinian farmers who visit their own lands, attack their herds and destroy trees and any other kind of farm crop, uproot trees and pollute water sources with sewage or toxic waste in order to make the Palestinians leave.
For further information: http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/kufrthulth_vp_en.pdf
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