‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Wed 5.12.12, Morning
Translator: Hanna K.
Azzun Atma 06:00 – When we arrived we were approached by a young man who has an authorization to go out and work on his fields, although he is disallowed. Because of that each time he tries to go out he is delayed, for an hour to two. At the DCO they told him that there was nothing to be done, that's how it is.
There are renovations in process at the CP. A new structure for checking, which has not yet been opened, has been put up, and in the meantime the checking is carried out in the old building. An awning was added for people who wait in the queue.
Over 100 people stand in the queue.
One man was waiting on the side, within the fence. To our enquiry he replied: He has an authorization which he forgot at home, therefore he tried to go over the fence. He was caught and his ID card was taken from him. Now he waits for it to be returned. In the meantime he was joined by some other illegal aliens who were caught, and were waiting…
There was a group of people who work night shifts at Azzun Atma and live on the Israeli side of Azzun Atma. According to them they return each morning to their homes without being checked. The soldiers intended letting them pass and then a lieutenant military policewoman intervenedand made them pass through the queue. When we asked her she replied that their papers could be forged.
Habla 07.15 – the queue is small, perhaps owing to the rain.
Two busses with children arrived. The driver gets out and is checked, reenters, opens the luggage lids, the soldiers check, the woman soldiers peeps into the bus from time to time and then they pass.
'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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