‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 5.4.09, Afternoon
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We stopped for half an hour at the checkpoint of ‘Azzun ‘Atma. The policy of permits will begin tomorrow: there is an announcement at the checkpoint. People are saying that they will not take them. The army gives the permits to people so that they can go to work on their own fields, which are on the other side of the checkpoint which the army put there. They won't take them, since they were not given to everybody and if they were given to a family, they weren't for the whole family. I.e., the elderly father receives a permit, but the children do not. So, when the father dies, they will confiscate their land and won't allow them to work. For them, the moment they agree to take the permits is as though they are agreeing to the whole arrangement. Friends say that the army is still patrolling in the village during the day and the night, at great speed in their jeeps. They go out through the checkpoint that only they are allowed to pass through in vehicles. Sometimes they grab someone on the street, briefly interrogate him, take him into the jeep and force him to show them the location of his house.
'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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