‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 29.3.09, Morning
07:30 Azzun Atma
There is no queue. Very few people passing. On the other side of the road, as usual, workers waiting for transportation.
In a conversation with the CP soldiers (the reservists – amongst whom is the CP commander) are pleasant, with them there are a regular army soldiers one of whom examines us whether we also go to Sderot, and the other who plays the big boss at the CP, who sends us away.
The passage at the CP is permitted for the inhabitants of Azzun Atma and for holders of work permits at the occupied territories. Others who have work permits in Israel must pass through Qalqiliya. The CP soldiers told us that till this moment the only one person was not allowed to pass.
'Azzun 'Atma
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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
Apr-11-2019Azoun: The main entrance to village blocked now for several weeks
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