‘Azzun ‘Atma, Mon 22.6.09, Morning
06:45 ‘Azzun ‘Atma
People pass quickly through a checkpoint run by two female soldiers in a very reasonable manner. It takes about five minutes from the time someone enters the fenced-in waiting cage until he goes through. There were about 50-60 people on line the whole time we were there.
Most of the people going through the checkpoint are young, aged 15 to 30 or 35, and many of them wait by the side of the road for taxis, near the houses outside the fenced area. It might be worthwhile to see what kind of “natural expansion” is occurring at “Sha’arey Tiqva,” because large numbers of these young people travel there to work.
'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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