‘Azzun ‘Atma, Mon 15.6.09, Afternoon
6.40
About 20 people stand in front of the gate waiting to be checked. The line soon shortens. It is late for the workers.
One man says that he comes from Nablus to work at Elkana. In the past he went through the Qalqiliya (Eliyahu) passage, that he is went on road 5. Now they will not let him go through there and he has to come to Azzun Atma, that is on the longer road 55 and from there to take another taxi for another 15 kilometre. At Azzun Atma he has to go through two checkpoints. He left his house at 4 a.m. and we did not ask him what he paid for taxis. Micky writes a report on the fact that there has been a worsening of the orders concerning the workers coming through the Eliyhau passage.
One man says that the wait at the northern checkpoint of the village which we cannot reach is almost an hour even through that there are not more people passing there than at the southern where we are present.
'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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