‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
06:30 Habla. The morning is hot.
In five minutes the gate opens and the first group of five enters, but from the start we heard complaints about how slow it’s going. The line becomes disorderly, the MP yells and screams and she closes the entrance. As a result, the line grows. During the entire time we were there additional people continued to arrive so that even though people crossed the line of those waiting to enter didn’t seem to grow shorter until just before closing time.
Two minibuses with schoolteachers crossed between 07:00 and 07:10 to the school in ‘Arab al Ramadin. At 07:20 we saw a school bus transporting pupils in upper grades to Habla.
08:05 Checkpoints 1447-1448, ‘Azzun ‘Atma
People begin coming through the gate. They show their ID and permit to the soldiers, then pass the booth with the MP to whom they recite their ID number.
We parked beyond the security road, near the gate. When we leaned against the military vehicle to take advantage of its shade a soldier told us to move away from it. After a while the MP began yelling at us that GOC orders forbid us to stand there. We said that at the entrance to the security road is a sign announcing that anyone entering does so on their own responsibility. They told us they’d call the police and will stop inspections if we don’t move. At the same time the soldiers claimed they’d stopped inspecting because of vehicles arriving to transport farmers to their lands far from the gate, past Oranit. People standing at the gate are angry, arguing with the soldiers. Meanwhile a Border Police officer arrived and asked for our IDs (which he recorded on a piece of paper) and ordered us to leave. He told us we could observe from Oranit; to stand any other location is illegal. The soldiers claimed that when we show up the laborers become stressed and combative, and it would be better if we stood farther away, “They see you’ve come and start making problems”…
'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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