‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
In the future, when the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian areas east of the "green line" will be a thing of the past, it will be possible to understand quite a lot about the depth structure of the occupation, based among other things on the documentation of anecdotes in secondary sites which may seem marginal, incidental, banal. "God is to be found in the small details".
At ‘Azzun ‘Atma (06:00-6:30) and Habla (6:55-08:00) – at the barriers in the separation fence, in the region between Rosh Ha'Ayin and Qalqiliya – there were a few people whom we observed what. A girl soldier talked in a patronizing, arrogant tone to the people who had to pass at this CP: "Go, go! You have no business standing here".
At Habla we saw a new Israeli flag hoisted proudly on the watch post next to the gate which leads to the plant nurseries. Not only the flag serves to affix the occupation in the local earth. When we arrived two soldiers activated an audio device and the sounds of the song "My land of Israel, my blooming land, you sit and watch it and glow" was to be heard at full volume all over the CP. Indeed, the Palestinian plant nurseries are packed with beautiful flora. But would the Palestinian boy who comes from Habla with his father and small brother, and who, while he walks, carries the trouser belt of his father in his hand (a belt the length of which is almost equal to his height…) – will this boy see any beauty around? Will the experience of the checking process at the CP be part of the winter vacation experience which he is enjoying now?!
'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.
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