‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
Translation: Tal H.
5:35 Azzun Atme Checkpoint – 4 children are running around selling coffee. Dozens of Palestinians who have completed their inspection procedures are waiting for their rides. 5 campfires are lit along the way, with Palestinians warming themselves around them while waiting for their rides to work. The two inspection posts are open and workers cross without delay.
A soldier approaches us, announcing that we are not allowed to take photographs for this is a military zone. He asks who we are, I show him our MW tag. He wants to know whether we think the checkpoint should be dismantled. We do not argue. We have come to see how things are run here.
6:00 one of the Palestinians asking to cross the checkpoint is turned back after his papers are inspected. He returns without further discussion. Outside a man from Umm Al Fahm awaits two workers, asks who we are and praises our activity. We wonder about the waiting lines not being as long as usual. Perhaps because it's Thursday. Or for some other reason.
6:25 Habla Checkpoint – dozens of Palestinians await crossing from the village side.
6:30 Soldiers and Military Policewomen get organized and the checkpoint opens on time (see photo). The first group of five Palestinians enters the checking post through the turnstile. Passage is swift. More groups get through. People smile at us and greet us "good morning!"
6:45 A car and a cart get through. One of the people coming out says to us: "These are fine soldiers" ! Apparently, when they want, soldiers can carry out the inspections and operate the checkpoint politely and with no extra humiliation.
6:50 Everyone who arrives enters the inspection post and comes out directly. Passage is swift, no long waiting lines an we wonder whether this is all coincidence.
'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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Habla
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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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