Azzun - according to Z., soldiers hurled teargas into the village following the prisoners’ getaway
Azoun
September 9, 2021
Rachel Afek
While I was on my weekly visit to Azzun, Z. told me that yesterday, namely Wednesday evening when it got dark, soldiers stood at the entrance to Azoun and hurled teargas into the village for nearly two hours. It penetrated everywhere. Whoever dared come out of their home could not breathe. It was all a matter of angry ventilation following the prisoners’ getaway.
While I was there, the street scene was the usual one. People sat in their waterpipe cafes and talked. And it’s obvious what everyone’s topic of conversation was today. The Palestinian version of conspiracy: the Israeli General Security Services know where the prisoners are but is biding time in order to wreak havoc. Show them who is stronger.
On another matter: I thought the squills were not flowering this year, and didn’t understand this. But on my way from Izbat Tabib to Azzun (on the old road) they flower in great numbers, in derelict fields. As usual.
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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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