Opened the gate? Half and hour late.
Habla, Checkpoint 1363, set up next to the separation fence near highway #55 (on the other side of the road is Qalqiliya, surrounded on all sides by a wall and a fence); the checkpoint separates the Palestinians from Qalqiliya and the village of Habla from their lands; students from the Bedouin village Arab-a-Ramadin from their school which is in Habla.
The checkpoint which was supposed to open at 7:10 was still closed at 7:48!
A school bus has been waiting since before 7:10. At 7:35, the driver returns and drives to the checkpoint Eliyahu Crossing. So that they might get to the school by way of Qalqiliya. Did they get there before the classes began?
People wanting to get to work in the fields and nurseries are waiting beyond the separation fence. Also the guards in the fields.
At 7:30, we called the DCO. Ugh! No answer.
7:48 – The gates opened, but the computer “wasn’t working”. It seems that the computer was fixed, since from then on, the people waiting went out in groups of five to ten each time. The teachers’ bus which was waiting all this time continued its journey after another 7 minutes of inspections of the documents of the passengers.
8:14 0 A youth returns in the direction of Habla.
8:15 – the checkpoint closes.
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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