The road to Ras-a-Tira is blocked

Place:

'Azzun

1474 Oranit

Falamiya North Checkpoint (914)

Habla Checkpoint (1393)

Mas'ha

Tags:

Delay in opening the checkpoint

Passage Restrictions

Separation fence

Observers:

Karin L. (Reporting and photographing), Cynthia P. (Guest); Translator: Hanna K.

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Jul-8-2021

Afternoon

waiting for the opening of the Oranit checkpoint

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Karin Lindner

Residents of Azzun Atma are waiting for the opening of the Oranit checkpoint

The soldier returns the stubborn donkey

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Karin Lindner

The soldier manages to take control of the fleeing donkey and returns him to Oranit checkpoint

Rear gate at the Salit checkpoint

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Karin Lindner

The gate at the Salit checkpoint opens at noon

Cynthia in Salit gate

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Karin Lindner

Cynthia in Salit gate that looks abandoned

We arrived at the Oranit CP some time before 13:00, the appointed opening hour. In the shade of the shed there were three men waiting and in the square there was a cart harnessed to a donkey as well as a few Azzun Atma inhabitants. Although they are pleased that this gate has again been opened and that they are not obliged to wander 3 kms northwards, to the Beit Amin CP and to return 3 kms southwards to their plots, they would prefer to be able reaching their plots at all hours and not to be separated from them by a wall which creates an enclave for the Oranit settlement. A few more Palestinians arrive, another cart and a donkey which its owner is unable to cope with.

13:15 A civilian vehicle with two men soldiers and two women soldiers arrives. One couple goes to stand under the cover which has turned into a control work station. Two Palestinians help the girl soldier to drag the heavy iron door. Only three people go out, on foot, and then they all enter. The donkey breaks free again and flees in the direction of Israel. This time the soldier succeeds in controlling him, brings him back, passes near the girl soldier for her to stroke his forehead.

We pass through the Hany gate with explanations about the settlements, enclaves and damage to the Palestinian villages.

We visit the plant nursery at the Habla CP which is already closed, a fact that does not prevent the Palestinians from passing through the holes in the fence. Explanations on the Alfey Menashe enclave are given on the main road, as the road to the Ras-a-Tira CP is blocked by a blockade. We visit Azzun.

Our plan was also to be at the Sal’it CP at its opening time – four o’clock – according to what our acquaintance G. from Kafr Sur told us. We arrived on time at the CP, and drove a few times back and forth until we found the road leading to it. There was no traffic of vehicles which eoulf have indicated the existence of a nearby CP. After we drove a few minutes on a bad dirt track, we arrived at a CP which seemed abandoned.

We waited for about twenty minutes until we gave up and went home. Later it turned out that the gate is opened from time to time with a delay of an hour and that it was best to arrive around 13:00 hrs, as recently it is being opened every day at noon as well.

Location Description

'Azzun

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Azoun (updated February 2019)

A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),

on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.

Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.

1393 Habla checkpoint

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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.

Dec-18-2023

Nina Seba

Habla, the checkpoint is closed

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Oranit checkpoint

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Oranit Checkpoint (4) (formerly 1474)
An agricultural checkpoint in the separation wall serves the farmers of 'Azzun' Atma, whose land is in the seam zone near Oranit. Since the construction of the new wall in 2013. Was opened 3 times a day. Since 2018, the army has refused to open it except during the olive harvest. Since 2018, it has been opened only during the olive harvest and the farmers have to pass daily at the Beit Amin / Abu Salman checkpoint (1447).

Fein Report from March 24, 2021: "The farmers from Beit Amin and Azzun Atma are happy that since last month the checkpoint has been open 3 times a day, at 6 in the morning, at 1 in the afternoon and at 4 in the afternoon. The farmers are really developing the place. "

Mar-22-2022

Ruti Tuval

The locked gate at the Anin checkpoint

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Checkpoint Falamiya North (914)

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Opens 3 times a day for about 40 minutes each time.

This checkpoint has extremely important for all farmers in the area since the previous, Falamya checkpoint opening routine of continuously open for 12 hours has been discontinued.
This took place after the separation fence was moved westward following the High Court of Justice.

Masha

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Hani's home enclaved between the separaion wall and the fence of Elkana settlement

Mas'ha

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A village in the Salfit district. In 1983, the settlement of Sha'arei Tikva and Etz Efraim were established south of the village and in 1985, the Oranit settlement was established west of the village. The separation barrier that creates the enclave of the settlements of Etz Efraim Elkana and Sha'arei Tikva, which were built on Mlas'ha's land, cut it off from the north-neighboring village of Sanniriya and from the main road to the north. The two agricultural checkpoints (1634 and 1549) for the passage to 5,000 dunams in the seamline zone are seasonal. Farmers complain that the army does not allow them to pass a water pipe needed for irrigation and especially for pest control spraying. "Hani's House" is a family house close to Elkana and separated from his village by a wall.