‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 24.5.09, Morning
07:20 Many workers are sitting on the wall beyond the checkpoint, waiting for the vehicles that will transport them to their workplaces. The checkpoint is empty. Only three people go through in the course of 20 minutes.
One of the workers waiting for a ride approaches to tell us about the Palestinian’s troubles. We’re aware of them, but it’s hard not to get furious again each time we hear about them. He points to the west and says: "The land you see here are mine. I haven’t any way to get to them freely. Every three months I have to get a permit to go to them, and even then I have endless difficulties. Usually the permit to enter the lands is given to people who aren’t capable of working them – the elderly, women. He says: When 8 people on your side fell ill with swine flu all of you got upset, but no one cares about the terrible sickness of 60 years of occupation". We, of course, can only stand there ashamed, unable to reply.
08:40 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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