חבלה, עזון, עזון עתמה
'Azzun-Atme – Habla
Monday, 2.3.15 AM
Observers: Nora R., Hannah P. (reporting)
'Azzun-‘Atma
05:50: We are on our way to the new gate, tense, as we are not certain about its location. We reached the roundabout of Ornit. On our right, a road led to the Wall. The area was bare. We approached the wall, where near a parked army vehicle there were several soldiers. At 06:00 the soldiers struggled to open a grey iron gate and finally succeeded. A group of about 100 persons was waiting at the top of the hill, waving entrance permits. Two soldiers checked their documents, then they were directed to the military vehicle (where there was a computer), and were listed there in order to make sure they would return by 16:00.
This is an agricultural gate, open 06:00-06:20. Only local landowners are allowed through here. This does not include the lands enclosed within Ornit – these are off bounds. The people were distressed as in the past they had free access to these lands. Moreover, some of these areas were blocked off by barbed wire.- This on top of their despair and pain at the theft of their lands when establishing Ornit and Sharei Tiqvah.
Habla7:00: Opened on time. Some 30 persons on line. Yesterday opening time was 07:15, allegedly due to computer failure. The soldiers were using mobile phones – progress was slow and the line was long. At 07:15 a bus with teachers departed for 'Arab-Ramadan and then a bus entered with pupils for Habla. The line remained much the same when we departed at 07:55.
We continued to 'Azzun – it was open; we were told that yesterday the village had been closed off.
'Azzun
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Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
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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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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.Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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