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‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 11.3.10, Morning

Place: 'Azzun 'Atma
Tags: Crowding Maltreatment Palestinian farmers Slow passage
Observers: Esti V. and Nava A.
Mar-11-2010
| Morning

Translation:  Suzanne O.


There is a long queue and nothing can be done about it.


Azun Atma
6:30 a.m. 

There is a long and crowded queue of Palestinians waiting to be checked in the webbed sleeve.

The drivers waiting for workers don't complain any more.

There are 4 reservists monitoring the queue and they just open the gate for those trying to enter or for those carrying extra large loads.

According to them, they would like to simplify the crossing but 'those above' do not allow them to do so, nor are they permitted to write down the ID numbers of those exiting on paper even though the two computer positions are unable to cope with the sheer weight of numbers and the queue gets bigger and bigger.

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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

       

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