‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Jayyus, Wed 29.8.12, Morning
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Azzun Atma, 6.00.A Palestinian passes us running and behind him two soldiers. They did not manage to catch him and when we got to the gate together with them they said that he was an illegal worker. There were already 120 people in the line and all the time more came up. The line did not get any shorter. There were two checking posts and military police checking bags.For a man who arrived together with us took half an hour to get through.
Habla. 7.00 The gate opened on time and a man with a cart came through. Afterwards a few people and a man with a bicycle. An argument ensued. The MP said that he had not had his food inspected and had to go back. He said that it had been inspected and refused. The soldier called to those checking at the back and after checking with them the matter ended. At this stage we intervened and asked why she could not check and she answered with the pathos of security but another soldier tried to Apologize.
As a result of being engaged in this argument we did not notice what was going on behind our backs (this will become clear later).
The amount of people in the line is less than usual but there is the usual harassment.
A man and two children in cart come up. He tells us that he works guarding 24 hours and is therefore classified as "00". Therefore he was not require to be listed (so as to check if he returned). But this time the MP had demanded that he go back to the booth so as to be listed. We went back to the car which had been next to us and so we had not kocked it and found that our cell phones which had been in different places had been stolen. (It seems that the cellular revolution has arrived here too).
8.30 Jayyus. We came to the village and met X. We heard from him that Huwwara checkpoint is being renovated and that tanks have been brought to Dir-A-Sharaf. He also told us of his difficulties now that he has been declared a security risk for the last 8 years. But now he has a chance to get a permit through a lawyer. He is having great difficulty in providing for a family of seven children. One of them works for the Palestinian police but only gets 1800.- shekels a month.
'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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Jayyus North (935)
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