‘Azzun ‘Atma, Wed 6.5.09, Afternoon
17.11 Azzun Atma
The workers are coming back to the village after a day of work in Israel. We asked to go into the village but were refused because it is a closed army area. We were told that we could call any of the taxi drivers with whom we wanted to speak. Racheli said that we did not want the army to represent us and that with their arms and that we did not need them to protect us. The answer we got was that the weapons were to protect the soldiers. The drivers say to Racheli that they did not want to speak to us because they are scared to do so. They only tell us that Captain S. took a woman who tried to cross the road through an opening in the fence so as to meet a man to whom she is engaged and who lived in Israel. They say that the soldiers delay the exit. For example cancer sufferers with a permit and going for treatment are delayed and they say that it take a lot of time for the patients to get to hospital in Israel. Sometimes up to half an hour delay even when it is urgent.
'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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