Habla Checkpoint (1393)
Habla checkpoint is misleading this morning. The current wave of resistance to the occupation is spreading through the West Bank, but at the checkpoint the occupation has settled in permanently. Efficient, smiling, one of the local Palestinian enterprises branding itself in Hebrew…
06:25 Soldiers arrive. People are waiting on the Habla side beyond the fence and the locked gate.
06:31 The checkpoint opens.
06:33 People go through “5-5.” What’s “5-5”? Soldiers yell to each other: five Palestinians at a time enter the inspection booth.
06:38 The first five exit. Shortly afterwards the first vehicle of the day comes from Habla.
06:59 The permit of a young man who arrived from the direction of the plant nurseries is inspected by a soldier in the guard post beside the fence.
07:00 No one is waiting.
07:30 The guard post “opens” an additional inspection point for those coming from Habla.
A. said he believes that today at 12 they’ll resume issuing exit permits.
07:48 The checkpoint closes.
Habla CP (1393)
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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.
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