‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 19.11.09, Afternoon
The
line lengthens as the sun sets. The Palestinians go towards the post of the
Military Police at the booth, put their IDs into the slot so as to prove that
they have returned to the village. Because only one post is working the line
lengthens and 10s of workers returning from work wait. Another soldiers deals
with a line taking the IDs with no slot and no computer. Writes down by hand
the number and so the line to some extent shortens. We phone the DCO about this
procedure, The Palestinians are joking with us? With us? And Immediately
a man arrives and pours his anger out on us in excellent Hebrew. On us, the
helpless representatives of the state. "The Jews do not want peace.
Everything is quiet. There is no terror and our lives get worse and worse and
we are more caged in. Soon you will put a fence around each house. The Jews do
not want peace."
'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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