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‘Anabta, ‘Azzun, Sun 30.11.08, Morning

Place: 'Anabta CP 'Azzun
Tags: Slow passage Walls and Blockades
Observers: Naomi K., Sarah B-S, Orna P. Translator : Orna B.
Nov-30-2008
| Morning

08:30 Anabta
Traffic jams in both directions. In the past year we had not encountered such thorough inspections of those going to Anabta.
 
We asked for the reason for the inspections and the long queues.
The Checkpoint Commander approached us and said that these were
inexperienced new reserve soldiers. According to him because of the
congestion he summoned more soldiers. According to him they must
inspect both those who enter and those who leave. We told him that we
had never encountered an inspection for those who leave, and that
generally in the other checkpoints we visited traffic was flowing. We
sat by the side of the checkpoint to see what happened. This apparently
helped – Lieutenant T from the  DCO has been summoned and he soon
arrived.
And indeed – within 1/4 hour traffic started flowing.
 
10:00 Azzun
Tammi C. called and asked us to go through Azzun because she has had complaints from the residents of the blocked village.
We
saw no blockade. We talked to a greengrocer by the junction. According
to him on Friday the Army had created a blockade which started at 07:00
and ended at 15:00. It was not clear why it started nor why it was
dismantled.
He said that about 50 soldiers had walked around the village. We
were surprised by the large number of soldiers but the greengrocer said
that relatively 50 was not a lot.
Today the Palestinian Police is in control here. During our visit we noticed several of their vehicles.
 

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      The checkpoint is located south of the village of 'Anabta, at the intersection of Road 60 (leading to Nablus at the entrance to Area A), with Road (57, 557, 5576) facing west towards the Einav settlement and the checkpoint at the exit from the West Bank - Figs checkpoint. Until 2010 we used to watch the intersection and report the long columns created due to a slow inspection of the vehicles in both directions.  
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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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