‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Mon 18.6.12, Morning
05:55 'Azzun 'Atma
A very long line of workers. We can't really see the end of the line, but estimate that there are at least 100 people waiting. When the turnstile opens, 12 people run through each time in order to wait next to the inspection booth with their documents. Today the inspection is very fast (about 3 minutes for the whole group), since 2 computers are operating. The process of going through is rather strange (perhaps this has been described in the past).
The workers arrive, leave their bags, packs and tools outside the gate, and get in line. After they have gone through the turnstile and their documents have been inspected, they have to ask the soldier to open the locked gate again to get out, to find their bags which they left outside and to come back in through the gate. Then they have to go with their belonging to a table which stands within the area of the gate; to be checked by the military police who are standing there and only then to exit through the gate and to hope that their transport hasn't left yet.
The driver of the transport for the quarry workers understands their problem and their anxiety about not getting through on time; they are already at the gate at 04:00.
06:22
The line shortens but new workers arrive constantly. The boss who employs the worker at that they have to remain fair and that at the exit from Habla there are workers who have been waiting to get to work since 05:00. She speaks to him quietly, in spite of his anger and shouting. Aside from the fact that only one computer is working, and that it is very hot, for some reason they do not let the Palestinians wait next to the turnstile which is near the inspection booth, something which causes a lot of additional wasted time between the groups. We try to convince, politely, the soldiers and the officer to improve the passage time, but this happens only after a long time. The soldiers are polite and the officer tries to speak to the Palestinians in Arabic.
07:50
The workers get through in 3 minutes. Again, 2 people arrive who want to enter Habla– and they have to wait until 2 groups of people come through from the other side, since that is only fair.
08:15
The line is shorter and we leave.
'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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