‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 7.1.10, Afternoon
'Azzun 'Atma
16:30At this hour the workers are returning home from their day's work. Most of the workers work in Israel or in the nearby settlements. When we arrived, there was a long line but it quickly dissolved. There were 2 inspection lines. The workers showed their IDs; next to the soldier doing the inspection there was another soldier with his weapon aimed toward the line. A photo is attached. Some confusion was caused by our presence. An officer arrived in a jeep and claimed that we were disrupting the traffic (while he himself had parked his jeep in the middle of the checkpoint and totally blocked it); he also claimed that the area was a closed military zone. We asked him to show us the written command from the General. There wasn't any. He called the police. We waited in vain. The police never arrived.
'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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