'Azzun
Umar’s plant nursery – I asked Umar about the permits to construct the grocery. He said there’s no permit. Nor did they apply for one. They’re waiting for the demolition order. Interesting.
We brought goods to the second-hand store in ‘Azzun. Hot za’atar tea at their home. The son is recovering from surgery and everyone is pleased that his condition is good. Zaharan has back pains; the surgery will be postponed until October.
Suhad’s potted plants are flowering beautifully.
On the way back home, near the checkpoint and in the square facing Qalqilya, works on the sides of the road at the level of turning the road into a highway. It is not clear what is going to happen.
'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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