‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 5.4.09, Morning
07:50 A female soldier joins the first one, and works quickly. The checkpoint empties.A Palestinian from Basmira approaches us, to tell us about a difficult experience he had at the Sara checkpoint four years ago. He went through the checkpoint on the way to a hospital in Nablus, where his wife was hospitalized after a Caesarian. For some reason, the soldier at the checkpoint wouldn’t allow him through; the Palestinian got angry and the soldiers beat him, broke his ribs, and he was hospitalized for a long time. A number of human rights organizations tried to help him. There was to have been a trial, but the soldiers in the photographs he was shown in order for him to identify the one who beat him, were taken from the waist up, and they were in civilian dress, so he wasn’t able to identify his attacker. It’s eminently clear that the Palestinian hadn’t done anything to the soldier, for if he had his entry permit to Israel would have been cancelled immediately – which didn’t happen; his permit wasn’t revoked. But, of course, he received no compensation for what happened to him.
08:00 (approximately). 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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