‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 23.4.09, Afternoon
17:30 We arrived too late, after the workers had already gone through. The detainees sits off to the side; we were told he suspected of being someone who's wanted, or who tried to cut the fence. People going through are inspected while their belongings sit on the ground.
A boy who wanted to cross the barrier that divides his village in order to buy vegetables is also checked. We promised the photographs wouldn't show the faces of the soldiers from the "special" unit. We were allowed to enter the village "on our own responsibility." When we left, we saw through the car window one of the soldiers arguing with the detainee who was seated on the ground. 
'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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