‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 30.4.09, Morning
6.50 Azzun Atma
Two women soldiers at the checkpoint and one in the tower. Workers wait at the side of the road for their employers. A Palestinian who speaks Hebrew tells us about the new situation at the checkpoint. Work permits are given for three months and allow a limited passage from 5am to 7pm. There are houses which are on the other side of the checkpoint and also land and if one wants to visit one of the people in those houses there is no possibility of doing so. He also tells of a young man who had wanted to study at a university overseas and could not get a permit and now works in building. He says it hurts that one has to get a permit to work one's own land on the other side of the checkpoint. It hurts him that tourists from overseas and go all over and he who was born here and his father's father's father was born here cannot pass the checkpoint.
Children come and show permits so as to pass. Small girls in uniform. We ask what this is about and the soldiers say that a child up to 13 has to show a copy of the parents' ID and those over have to show the permit of the parents.
7.30 Marda is open and Seita closed.
'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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