‘Azzun ‘Atma, Falamiya, Habla, Wed 3.7.13, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
Azzun Atma
06:00 Many people wait for transportation outside the checkpoint. We asked where they were from; they said that some cross through another agricultural gate west of the main crossing which opens earlier and where inspection is faster. About 50 people on line; more keep joining it.
The night-shift workers from the Hanson factory have to wait at the entrance and go through the magnemometer.
A man sits on the side of the checkpoint. We asked him why. It turned out he was in Israelillegally; he’s being made to wait three hours (after they took his ID and his cigarettes). Two more people have been detained. Another came, insisting that he had been walking along the road and a military jeep decided that he was in Israelillegally, picked him up and brought him to the checkpoint. Soldiers at the checkpoint didn’t let us speak to soldiers who were willing to talk, “because it endangers security.”
Habla
07:10 No line today because the computer is down and inspections are conducted manually at the exit.
Falamya
08:00 A horse cart with three laborers arrives at the agricultural gate, they enter for inspection, the horse and cart are inspected as well as the cart’s load. A man arrives on a donkey, goes for inspection and enters with the donkey. A tractor and cart arrive, the driver is inspected and enters with the vehicle.
On our way we stopped in Jayyous and Azzun to leave goods at the secondhand shops.
'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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Falamiya
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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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