‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
Nothing unusual occurred during today’s shift; the occupation proceeds in an exemplary manner. Today’s the sixth candle of Hanukkah; the menorah stands proudly at the entrance to the Azzun Atma checkpoint. In the year 167 BCE the Hasmoneans began their uprising, the “Hasmonean revolt,” against the Seleucid regime in the land of Israel, in response to Antiochus’ decrees, edicts imposed by the foreign rulers prohibiting the Jews from fulfilling important religious commandments (cf. Wikipedia). In our day Israel is the foreign ruler over 2.5 million Palestinians. Is it waiting for the rebellion?
06:40 Azzun Atma checkpoint
A menorah stands on the concrete cube – it’s the sixth day of Hanukkah. There’s a relatively short line at this hour, about 30 people. The crossing goes quickly and efficiently; it takes people ten minutes to go through. A soldier has a pleasant conversation with a boy selling coffee. This time they allowed him to cross; last time they wouldn’t let him through to sell coffee. Everything’s calm, people cross quickly, without difficulties. We left around 07:00.
07:30 A truck loaded with seedlings comes through the gate. A car arrives from the opposite direction. The soldiers signal the driver to open the gate; the driver says he has a problem with his leg. After a short delay a soldier opened the gate and went to check in the office. He then returned to inspect the driver’s documents while the latter was still seated in the car – instead of the usual procedure in which the driver leaves the car and goes over to the office to have his documents inspected.
A few trucks and pickups go through, and also a horse cart loaded with vegetables.
07:40 Meanwhile a fair number of people had joined the line in anticipation of the gate closing at 07:45. The gate to the village closes. We see a man standing outside, apparently wanting to go through. They didn’t let him. About 15 people await inspection between the two gates.
07:55 All those waiting were inspected and left through the gate. The soldiers close the two gates and the offices. The five soldiers who operated the checkpoint leave.
'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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