‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 20.5.10, Morning
Translation: Hanna K.
Azzun Atma 06:20 –
Great rejoicing – today too there is no considerable queue.
The soldiers on the site are cordial. According to them the computer people work swiftly and the pressure is spread over the many hours during which the CP is open – since 04:30.
On the road many Israeli Palestinians are waiting in their cars for workmen. They look forward to the day on which there won't be any checkpoints at all.
One of them tells us about the problems the police created for him when they stopped him near Oranit with a Palestinian who had an authorization to work on the seam-line. He was taken to the Ramleh police station, was brought before a judge and was released without any indictment.
Thus a working day was wasted for both of them.
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'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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