חבלה, עיזבת טאביב, פלאמייה, דיר שאראף, ענבתא, מעבר תאנים, 6.6.2011 בוקר
Habla .
The first group of five are already outside. A minute later the second group exits. A busload of children arrives. According to the driver , classes will continue for a few more days before summer vacation. Soldiers enter the bus for a quick check.
07.10 The fourth group exits. People are pleased today. Few are waiting to pass – we didn’t understand why.
07.20 We go out. Close to the fence on the ‘Israel’ side there is a cleared space with posts ready for a fence.
07.25 Ma’avar Eliyahu. There are still 25 workers waiting to pass. A long line of cars is waiting to enter Israel.
Izbat Tabib. No news about the fence.
07.50 Falamya farmers’ passage. Quiet. Various work vehicles – from tractors to donkeys and bicycles reach the gate. People get off for a quick search before continuing.
08.30 Return via 'Azzun On route 55 until Kedumim we did not meet any IDF vehicle. The first Hummer was opposite the bus stop at Kedumim.
08.35 J’it junction completely quiet.
09.00 Pause at Deir Sharaf The road ascending to Shavei Shomron is crowded with cars and trucks. A Hummer arrives from the north.
09.25 'Anabta checkpoint. Passage is free. The soldiers as usual watch from the tower.
09.35 Te’enim passage. There is digging by bulldozers near to the house of Abu Hatem outside the fence (i.e., at the entrance to the village G”abra). Why? Are they moving the fence?
'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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