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Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Jinsafut, Za’tara/Tapuach, Yanun, Zeta/Jama’in

Observers: Shosh Bernstein and Fatthhiya Akfa reporting. Translator: Hanna K.
Oct-23-2014
| Afternoon
Habla 13:00 – The gate is not yet open.  It was opened at 13:15.
 
Jinsafut 13:20 – a military jeep is parked at the entrance to the village.
 
Za'tara/Tapuah 13:45 – the CP is manned, there are soldiers at the station opposite the posts, in the towers and at the bus stations on the south side.
 
Yanun 14:05 – we arrived at a house in which the international volunteers stay. Our aim was to reach the house of Rashid, the representative of the village at the Aqraba municipality, who lives near the house of the volunteer, in order to hear from him whether new settlements were established on their land. (I read in the Alaythad newspaper that two settlements have been set up). He said that three months before lands had been confiscated from them on the east side of a closed military area, for training purposes. A month before they began expanding Itamar. A few days later, not far from the settlement 777, there is no name just numbers, they erected five caravans and built a road.  He also said that Yanun is surrounded by settlements, they are like in a prison, all their olive plantations are near the settlements and they cannot get to the olive picking unless they coordinate with the DCO. They were given protection for just one day and they managed just a little bit and the settlers to managed to pick a part and also to graze their herds in the olive groves, which caused a lot of damage to the trees.
 
85 percent of the lands of Yanun were confiscated for the settlements.
 
15:10 At the entrance to Zeita/Jama'in a military jeep was parked and soldiers stood next to it. 
Hares Junction – On the side of the road, at the traffic light, a military jeep was parked where the workers stand.
 
16:00 Azzun Atma – there were only two soldiers at the CP, there is no pressure yet, a soldiers passed to the Palestinian side of the CP to the market and asked the vendors to vacate the place. And when we asked why? He answered that these were new regulations and that they were hindering the traffic ?????? We argued with them and one of them shouted Yalla, Yalla, go away, you disturb us.
 

 

  • '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

       

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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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  • Jinsafut

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    • Jinsafut
      A village in Areas B and C. Much of its cultivation area has been declared a nature reserve where no agriculture or construction is permitted, and many olive groves under its ownership are located beyond the Separation Barrier. In addition to frequent demolitions and night raids, the village's olive orchards are contaminated by chemical wastewater from the nearby Karnei Shomron settlement.
       
  • Za'tara (Tapuah)

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    • Za'tara (Tapuah) Za'tara is an internal checkpoint in the heart of the West Bank, at the intersection of Road 60 and Road 505 (Trans-Samaria), east of the Tapuah settlement. This checkpoint is the "border" marked by the IDF between the north and south of the West Bank, in accordance with the policy of separation between the two parts of the West Bank that has been in place since December 2005. At the Za'tara checkpoint, there are separate routes for Israelis and Palestinians. In the route for Israelis, there are no inspections and the route for Palestinians inspects. The queue lengthens and shortens suits. The checkpoint is open 24 hours a day. The checkpoint is partially staffed and the people who pass through it are checked at random.  
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