'Anabta, Beit Iba, Deir Sharaf, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim), Jubara (Kafriat), Shave Shomron, Tue 19.10.10, Morning

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Beit Iba

'Anabta

Shave Shomron

Jubara (Kafriat)

Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)

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Nurit L., Dalya and Natalie K. (reporting) Translator: Charles K

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Oct-19-2010

Morning

06:40 Habla

40 people waiting on line. They’re inspected in groups of five. The Palestinians are restless, quarreling, and the Palestinian steward has trouble keeping order. Two reservists are at the checkpoint. The bus taking children to school arrives at 06:50. The driver gets out to be inspected. They tell him that the children must also get off to be inspected. Nurit calls the DCO to complain. She’s told that the children don’t have to get off to be inspected, and the soldiers will be informed of this. Another bus arrives, and the story is repeated. The older girls get off to be inspected. An additional group of soldiers comes to the checkpoint because of the confusion that has been created. There’s a female MP among them who calms down the Palestinians. The bus with the children is still waiting and Nurit again calls the DCO who promises to be at the checkpoint tomorrow because the reservists don’t know the rules. Fifteen minutes later the buses go through without the children having been inspected. We should note that the drivers and the buses go through the checkpoint every morning – always the same children and the same drivers.

07:35 Eliyahu gate

.There are 20 laborers standing on line

08:00 Jit junction

An army jeep stationed at the junction. Two soldiers stand outside.

08:30 Deir Sharaf

We sat in the café next to Jamal’s grocery story and the locals told us what they need: help picking olives on the 25-27 of October in the village’s fields on the other side of the fence next to Shavey Shomron.

(The olive harvest coalition should be contacted.) In addition, the wild boars that were brought to the wadi near the village cause damage and frighten the residents.

Even at 7 in the morning you can find children sheltering in cars in fear of the boars which are still wandering around – according to Sami, and requests help from the Israeli agricultural authorities.

There’s a similar problem at Kifl Hars.

We continued to Beit Iba to see where the checkpoint once stood. Only the concrete cubes remain.

09:00 Shavey Shomron

The checkpoint is empty. Two jeeps parked facing each other.

09:10 Anabta

The checkpoint is empty, no soldiers, except in the guard tower.

09:20 Jubara

The soldiers ask for our ID cards.

09:25 Irtach

Empty

Location Description

Irtah (Sha'ar Efrayim)

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The checkpoint is for Palestinians only. It is the main barrier to the passage of workers from the northern West Bank to Israel.
Workers with a permit to work in Israel and also for trade (with appropriate permissions), medicine, and visiting prisoners.
One can cross the checkpoint only on foot. The checkpoint is located north of Road 557 and south of Tulkarm. Operated by a civil security company, opening hours: between 4:00 and 19:00 on weekdays.
As members of Machsom Watch, we began our shifts to this location in 2007.
We arrived before it opened at 4 in the morning and report since, on the harsh conditions and the long and crowded queues of workers. The workers who pass by continue their journey by transportation to work throughout Israel.

In the first period of its activity, about 3,000 and then 5,000 people passed through this checkpoint every day. Due to the small number of checking points and arbitrary delays for long periods of time in the "rooms", workers feared losing their transportation.
Hence workers leave their homes at 2:30 at night to be among the first. Today, 15,000 pass and the transition is faster. Workers are still leaving their homes very early to get past the checkpoint at 7 p.m.

In an adjacent compound, there is a terminal for the transfer of goods on a commercial scale, using the back-to-back method.

Anabta checkpoint

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The checkpoint is located south of the village of Anabta, at the intersection of Road 60 (leading to Nablus at the entrance to Area A), with Road (57, 557, 5576) facing west towards the Einav settlement and the checkpoint at the exit from the West Bank - Figs checkpoint.
Until 2010 we used to watch the intersection and report the long columns created due to a slow inspection of the vehicles in both directions.

Oct-29-2011

Anabta checkpoint 24.10.11

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Deir Sharaf checkpoint

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Deir Sharaf checkpoint is located west of Nablus and south of the settlement of Shavei Shomron, at the entrance to the village of Deir Sharaf on the road leading to Nablus. The checkpoint was activated in early March 2009 after the Beit Iba checkpoint was closed. Palestinians are allowed through the checkpoint , but not for Israelis. Unlike the checkpoints leading to Qalqilya and Tulkarm, crossing of Israeli Palestinians is only allowed on Saturdays.

Feb-29-2024

Nina Seba

Deir Sharaf - the entrance to the village

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Shave Shomron

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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

Jubara (Kafriat) Checkpoint

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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 info-icon , 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.

Eliyahu Crossing

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This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.
It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Tzufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone.
This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone."
It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area info-icon are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.

Beit Iba

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A perimeter checkpoint west of the city of Nablus. Operated from 2001 to 2009 as one of the four permanent checkpoints info-icon closing on Nablus: Beit Furik and Awarta to the east and Hawara to the south. A pedestrian-only checkpoint, where MachsomWatch volunteers were present daily for several hours in the morning and afternoon to document the thousands of Palestinians waiting for hours in long queues with no shelter in the heat or rain, to leave the district city for anywhere else in the West Bank.
From March 2009, as part of the easing of the Palestinian movement in the West Bank, it was abolished, without a trace, and without any adverse change in the security situation.