‘Azzun ‘Atma, Wed 17.6.09, Afternoon
15:15 ‘Azzun ‘Atma
We realize that we have arrived at the checkpoint too early. An Israeli car dropped off one person who went right through. There were two female soldiers at the gate, who were friendly and didn't object to talking with us.
Mika noticed that across the road from the gate there is a factory for cutting and polishing granite. "Couldn't a worker say that he's going to work in the stone factory and then go into Israel to work?" Mika asked the soldiers. "If they want to get to Israel to work, they can go through any of the gaps in the fence. There are numerous breaks," one answered. "Then why have the checkpoint here at the gate?" was our next question. The soldier shrugged her shoulders, "It's not our decision," she said.
15:30 The first group of 10 workers is dropped off at the gate. They all have permits and they all go through easily.
15:50 We are standing around with nothing to do. We agree that when we do this course again we will leave later in the day in order to arrive here later, when more workers are coming home. We then left for home.
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'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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