Jubara (Kafriat)
Jubara 5.2.04 – morning Participants: Shlomit M., Neomi S., Estti T., Hadas T., 7 a.m.: the children’s gate is locked – the holiday ends on Monday. On the way down towards the checkpoint we see elderly women from Tulkarem waiting for a car to take them to Qalansawa for strawberry picking . They posses work permits and look as if they are quite used to waiting and hard work. At the Irtah CP, reserve soldiers fulfilling their task reasonably and with sensitivity. A bus wishing to cross was checked without humiliating the passengers and without excessive waiting. A father and son carrying plastic boxes with home made cheese. The father has a permit to go out the son does not, yet the soldier allows him out, to help the father carry the stuff. as far as the structure. The son then returns and the father proceeds. The tractors inactive; probably they are manned by Israeli Arabs who are also celebrating the holiday. At home in the evening, we ate some strawberries and I recalled the look of the women from Tulkarem who waited for the Qalanswa car to reach the Checkpoint.
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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