‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 27.8.09, Morning
‘Azzun ‘Atma
06.20 A line of about 50 Palestinians crowded in the net sleeve.
In place of a commander, there are a soldier and (apparently) a military policeman sitting in the computerized cubby. Only the m.p. checks and progress is very slow. The commander is on a long ‘important’ telephone conversation and the soldier sits and stares ahead, without any intention of helping. Even when youths arrived from the opposite direction and want to enter the village he doesn’t bother to open the gate for them and sends them to the crowded sleeve.
When the commander ends his conversation he joins the checking and tells the soldier to open the additional gate for movement in the opposite direction – although he doesn’t go as far as joining in checking.
We timed the flow: when two were checking, waiting time was 15 minutes. Meanwhile the contractors were waiting patiently.
Because of Ramadan, ‘business’ at the checkpoints is quiet. All the cafes are closed, and the regular coffee and fig seller are absent.
'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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