‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 4.3.10, Afternoon
We drove to the northern checkpoint of
Azzun Atma on a completely new road to us. Forgotten villages. Our
hearts go out to the children playing there in nature. Our dear
driver turned from road 55 to the village of Azzun and went on to
Tulta, Siniriah, a winding road until we came to the northern
checkpoint of Azzun Atma
16.15 At the northern checkpoint….no
one waiting. 
A native of the area told us that in the last week there
had been no checking of those passing through the checkpoint. The
pressure is not at the southern checkpoint. A reserve soldier stands
at the checkpoint with a military policeman and they do said there
had been no checking. The northern checkpoint is open 24 hours a day
and the southern until 23,00.
As a result of the law allowing Israeli
residents to pass to areas over the seamline we were able to pass the
northern checkpoint with our car through the village of Azzun Atma to
the southern area.
16.40 The southern checkpoint at the
exit from Israel 10s of workers returning from work stand in long
lines waiting to be checked. Only a military policewoman is manning
the sealed room and sending people through so slowly that it is
maddening.
A jeep arrives with a captain who says
that the soldiers at the checkpoint are new and he tries to help but
the lines remain very long. More and more workers arrive. We turned
to the Army Humanitarian Centre to J. and to the DCO at Tulkarm. N. promised
to try to find out what was happening. But during the time that we
remained at the checkpoint nothing seemed to change very much.
'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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