‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 16.10.08, Morning
Natanya translating
7.00. Azun Atma. As a result of the report received that 30 families of the village had received permits to pass the checkpoint so as to harvest their olives. We went to see that this actually took place. When we arrived we were told by the soldiers that thee were about 100 people there and representatives of the DCO and that all had passed.
Two cars were standing at the side to be checked. The driver, the owner of two trucks, motioned to us in despair that they were going to make him take down his entire load. We stayed to watch. A negotiation ensued between the soldiers and the driver who knew the procedure well. The tone of both was of boredom and of despair. The soldier insisted that the driver take down his load and the driver is despair starts to take down the sacks. The soldier tries to encourage him but is obstinate that he has to do so. It looks ridiculous. The owner takes down parcel after parcel. They are enormous and the soldier does not check them and who knows what they contain. The main thing is that he must take them off the truck. The driver keeps on arguing, trying to persuade the soldier to look amongst the parcels which are still inside the truck and save him taking them down. In the end they come to an agreement and not everything has to be taken down.
Then the soldier finds a jacket in the truck which seems to be that of the army and asks the driver from where it is and where it is going. The driver says that it is not army property and refuses to give the jacket up. The soldier in the end lets the jacked stay at the checkpoint with the names of the driver and says that he can get it when he comes back.
7.20 The driver goes on his way with a bitter "good morning" 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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