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‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla

Observers: Rachel A., Nina S. (reporter), Iva A. (translator)
Apr-28-2014
| Morning
Routine occupation. The water pump which was confiscated by the civil administration from the water well near Habla checkpoint has not been returned till today. It has been 4 weeks, and the nurseries need to bring water by containers in order to water the plants. Every day the confiscated water pump is in the area of the civil administration costs the owners 600 NIS. According to them their request to put back the old pump, the one which had been there for the last 60 years, was not approved.
 
06:30 – Azun  Atme – we got there late because the alarm clock did not wake us up. Lucky for us we did not have to get to work. The checkpoint was active despite our absence, and when we arrived there were only very few people in line, and those too went through before we left. According to the Palestinians the soldiers worked well today, and yesterday too.
An Israeli came to try and persuade the soldiers to let through his worker who was not identified by fingerprint machin, and that despite the fact that he has a valid permit in the computer, he was not allowed to pass. He lost a day of work and went to the DCO in EYAL chekpoint in order to get a new finger print reading. A routine occupation, we have already said. And now they suggest to annex area C. Imagin all the workers getting blue IDs.
07:10 Habla –  the water pump is not back, neither the new one, nor the old, and the nurseries are watered by water containers.The excuse is that there was no permit to put a new pump, but they had taken the old one too!! "catch 22".
The checkpoint is as usual. There is not a long line, and many arrive just towards the time of closing the gate. There are horse and mule carriages, cars going to the nurseries and there is also a girls' bus, almost empty, at 07:30, and it went through. At some point there was a herd of sheep coming from the west bank. No shepherd was seen. The sheep went through without their documents checked, and keep towards the nurseries all alone, as at a certain point they seem to know, and they turn left to the field near the nursery. Maybe a shepherd was waiting for them there, we don't know. It was just nice to see them go through by themselves and apparently know where to go.
There is a woman who goes through here a few times a week – she is a marrow transplant patient who gets treated at Tel Hashomer hospital – she has no volunteer transpontation today, and there is a taxi waiting to take her there. But they don't let her go through the line. Consideration is common here, and she waits and sits down every few steps. Every one goes through and at 08:10 the gates close.
We also went to our friend in Azun, in order to bring things to his shop, there is nothing new to tell us.
 

  • '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

       

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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.

       

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