‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Thu 31.1.13, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
05:45 Azzun Atma. A new shed where people can wait after being inspected at the checkpoint. It’s roofed and walled along the side facing the road, blocking the view from the road. There was no line, very light flow of people because of the bad weather.
06:30 Habla. We arrived early; it opens only at 07:00. Today they opened at 07:15.
A few people and one car on line. The first five are inspected and cross in five minutes.
At 07:30 the school bus arrived. The driver went to show his ID, returned to the bus, drove into the checkpoint, raised the doors to the baggage compartments on the side of the bus. A soldier got on the bus to check and it drove on.
One of the checkpoint soldiers came to talk with us. He’ll be demobilized in two weeks. He lives in Yad Binyamin, where people from Netzrim live. He was interested in what we were doing; we didn’t agree, of course.
We asked one of the women coming through the checkpoint where they can work in such weather. It turns out she works in covered greenhouses where cucumbers grow. Because of the stormy weather, only a few people came to the checkpoint. We decided to end our shift for the same reason
'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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