‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
06:15 On the way to Azzun Atma there are already many people. A wagon loaded with vegetables passes by. The new wall already surrounds Azzun.
06:20 Azzun Atma CP.
Many laborers have already passed abd are waiting outside. The queue is still quite long, maybe 50 people. Passage is rapid, we clocked it at 15 minutes, but the queue does not shrink as new people join it. One laborer greets us with a Good Morning, adding: "Life is hard, I wish we were dead".
06:40 Around 60 people still in line.
Soldiers bring a young Palestinian to the CP. He was apprently caught trying to pass through holes in the fence. One particualrly angry solider is heard screaming: "Don't tell me you weren't passing!! Yesterday you passed with some other person!!! Don't lie to me!!! He takes the Palestinian's ID "Sit on the side!". The young man screams back: "Don't you curse me!!!", and sits by the side of the CP. It is obvious from the going on that nobody considers these infiltrators to be posing any real danger, but rather they are understood to be in search of a living. But the screams express that rules are rules and must be followed.
07:05 The line has shrunk to about 25-30 people, and about 5-60 are waiting for their employers to pick them up.
07:25 Habla CP
No queue, anyone who arrives passes immediately.
Among the passers: a goat herd, some cars, pickup trucks, a sprinkling of people, a horse-and-buggy. All is wonderfully calm and efficient. Odd.
Perhaps the Ramadan is keeping many at home.
Regarding the pump.
The pump for the well, which was donated by the Swedish government in order to supply the nursry with water, and was confiscated over 3 months ago, is still not operating. It has been returned by the DCO, but not activated. According to information from one of the nurseries, it required some fixing, but the required parts were still in the DCO.
Meanwhile they continue to pay a lot for water from the containers: 150 NIS a cubic meter, rather than 30 NIS for pumping it from the well.
To be continued…
'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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Habla
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Habla CP (1393)
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.
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