‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 3.5.09, Morning
'Azzun 'Atma
11.30 As we missed the exit from the road to 'Azzun 'Atma in the morning, we arrived at the end of the watch.
There was no traffic in the area of the checkpoint. A bored woman soldier sits next to the booth, a second one stands on the other side.
The unit serving here at present is פלי"ז, i.e., a rescue unit. This we were told by the woman soldier.
A single Palestinian crosses the checkpoint, asks the soldiers smilingly,"Who wants to check me?" He presents his ID and passes through immediately.
When we begin to leave, we notice the soldier running quickly southwards along the road, after the man who had just left the checkpoint. We rushed to our car so as to follow them. On our way to the car we hear a settler shouting at her from his car: " Is this how you let them escape?" By the time we reached our car and turned, we saw neither the soldier nor the Palestinian. A bit further on there was an army jeep parked across the road. This whole incident remained unexplained and there was no one to explain it to us.
'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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