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‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 29.3.09, Afternoon

Place: 'Azzun 'Atma
Observers: Judit B., Noa P., Linda, Tal H. and Galit G. (reporting)
Mar-29-2009
| Afternoon

18:10
On our way home we monitored this checkpoint and observed workers coming home from their job and being forced to handle and carry very heavy equipment that is no longer allowed to be transported by vehicle into the village. Machines, sacks, a refrigerator, everything must now be carried by hand. A reserves soldier sporting stylish ski-sun-glasses does not understand what's bothering us. Why, don't porters carry stuff seven or five or four stories up his own building?

Anyway, we got a repeat performance of the mantra about how few suicide bombings there have been since…

So what did we have? A caged city, caged pedestrians, caged passengers, and finally, a caged village.

At 18:30 we re-entered the State of Israel.

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    • 'Azzun 'Atma
      A Palestinian village of about 1,800 residents. The settlement of Sha'arei Tikva was established on its land adjacent to it, and the settlement of Oranit was established on its agricultural lands. By 2013, the separation fence had passed through the village and a checkpoint staffed by the army allowed the residents to cross from side to side. After building a massive wall surrounding the village and some of its agricultural lands, the residents went daily for five years to their lands that remained in the Seam Zone through the Oranit agricultural checkpoint (4). Since 2018 it has only  opened during the olive harvest and the farmers have to pass daily at the Beit Amin / Abu Salman checkpoint (1447), about 3 kilometers north.

      From a report from March 24, 2021: "The farmers from Beit Amin and Azon Atma are happy that since February 21 the Oranit checkpoint .is going to be open 3 times a day, The farmers are really developing the place."

      Report from July 14, 2024: "Ornit checkpoint is closed . The Beit Amin/Abu Salman agricultural checkpoint is closed (there is no contact with the military to check if it opens rarely), the Ezbat Jaloud checkpoint was opened once a day before the war.

      Updated for July 2024

       

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