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‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 10.5.09, Morning

Place: 'Azzun 'Atma
Tags: Passage Restrictions Slow passage
Observers: Yael B., Ditza Y. (reporting), Translator: Charles K.
May-10-2009
| Morning

 

07:25  'Atma.  People trickle out of the checkpoint.  Rigorous inspections.


One of those going through reports waiting two hours at the internal checkpoint, another claims he waited an hour and a half.


An Israeli Arab who transports workers is waiting for them to come through.  Complains about the situation of the Palestinians in 'Azzun 'Atma:  Someone requiring medical treatment, with a permit to go to Hadassah, wasn’t allowed to leave through this checkpoint.  In another case, a Palestinian whose lands are on the other side of the road is not allowed to get to them from here.

 

07:40  Almost no one goes through the checkpoint.  Occasionally a lone Palestinian shows up.  We left.

 

 

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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

       

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