‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 2.8.09, Morning
07:20 ‘Azzun ‘Atma. There are 50-60 people crowding around the exit from the checkpoint. A female soldier inspecting outside and another one seated in the booth inspects the IDs that the people going through push through an opening.
Inspection of the IDs is rigorous but rapid, 15-20 seconds for each one.
We try to talk to the checkpoint commander, who says, I can’t talk to you. When we insist and say that since he’s the commander he’s allowed to talk to us, the soldier doing the inspection comes over to help him: We’re
not interested in talking to you
But, we should note that the commander as well as the soldiers carrying out the inspection behaved politely to the Palestinians. The soldier smiled at them and wished them a good day at work, and the commander, when a woman arrived wanting to enter the village, immediately opened the gate for her, calling “Come on, ma’am!”
An Israeli police vehicle was parked next to the exit from the checkpoint when we arrived, and it remained the whole time we were there. A policewoman who got out and came over to find out what we were doing there told us that their presence was routine.
07:50 there are about 20 people in line.
We left the checkpoint.
'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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