‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
Habla-'Azzun Atma CP
Habla – 06:50
People were already exiting the gate. We asked the MP when the gate
had opened but received no reply – the workmen told us that it was at
06:30 or 06:45. The normal procedure here consists of groups of five
entering, and then passing through to the MPs for an inspection of
their food-bags. Vehicles: the drivers are checked in the shack and
then the vehicles are checked. Vehicles with saplings passed through
too. By 07:20 the CP was empty. This is the first school day and a
busload of students arrived.
‘Azzun-Atma– 07:50
The gate opens at 07:45. We proceeded from Ornit along the fence to the
present-day gate. The soldiers checking at the gate were the same as
atHabla. As soon as we got there the commanding officer told us we
were not permitted to drive along the fence-road (this is the same
road that the Palestinians use!). Also, that if we wish to
watch-observe the CP, we should do so from Ornit. (impossible
distance!) The Palestinians are checked one by one by the soldiers,
then they submit their ID number to the girl-MP, and she lists it in
her mobile phone (this in order to monitor their return through the
same gate). The gate is far from 'Azzun-Atma and from the fields and
the area of Ornit – where they work: "for security reasons" is the
excuse but of course is the means to worsen the situation and
discourage the Palestinians from tilling their fields. At times
wagons harnessed to two tractors give the workmen a lift on their way
up to Ornit. An officer was standing in the middle of the road and was
checking the workmen's bags. In one case he found a bathing suit and a
towel and sent the man back. At 08:20 the gate was closed.
'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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