‘Azzun ‘Atma, Mon 6.4.09, Afternoon
Headline of the day: "Hope is a good thing. But the truth must be spoken."
17:00 – ‘Azzun ‘Atma
People arrive in small groups and as individuals to return home through this checkpoint. One of them left his ID here previously with the female soldier on inspection duty. According to her gestures, it seems as though he is a bit late, but he gets the ID back and enters the village.
Another man requests to leave the village, but is refused. The soldier inspecting says to a young man with a duffel bag: if you want to leave, it is only with a permit.
17:12 A man who works in Sha'arei Tikva talks with us in fluent and elegant Hebrew. He is the one who says, with a bitter smile, the sentence: "Hope is a good thing. But the truth must be spoken."
A woman asks to leave the village. By her movements, we understand that she wants to cross the road, but the soldier doesn't allow her to. Afterwards, a young man arrives. He goes out and returns in a few minutes weighed down with packages of clothes and blankets.
When there are no people waiting, the soldier turns to us and tells us that from today only people with work permits in the settlements and Israel can go out through this checkpoint. The rest of the residents of ‘Azzun ‘Atma can leave the village only through "Gate 5", the old checkpoint.
17:23 – We left.
'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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