‘Azzun ‘Atma, Sun 5.7.09, Morning
06:55 ‘Azzun ‘Atma: About one hundred people are crowded around the exit gate. One woman is inspecting and another, who’s also the checkpoint commander, is providing security and helping inspect from time to time.
The inspectors examine the documents carefully.
A settler, waiting for a worker who’s renovating his house, is impatient but, on the other hand, is in favor of the checkpoint, and the humiliating treatment of the Palestinians seems appropriate to him.
He rejects my criticism, saying: “ What do you want, that someone will come through here with explosives?”
A man who’s just come through the gate turns to us: “Look at what’s going on here, people wait in line for an hour, and the conditions! I treat my sheep better than they treat people here”.
'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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