‘Azzun ‘Atma, Thu 8.4.10, Morning
Translation: Hanna K.
Azzun Atma 06:25
This morning too the sleeve is packed full with workmen on their way to building jobs at the settlement. Surprisingly there are few cars waiting on the side. The soldiers are still of the rear area headquarters. An unfriendly girl soldier who doesn't utter a word and a young smiling second lieutenant.
A military policeman tries to shoo us far away from the CP but relaxes finally. The soldiers are not ready to write down the ID number on a separate page and thus to speed up the passage.
They try to explain to us the terrible security risk involved in not checking the IDs against the computer. (Do you remember the days at Huwwara when there wasn't any computer yet and they used to pass on the suspect ID numbers by phone?)
The queue moves on slowly.
The coffee vendors expect customers, but they are impatient when they leave the queue.
'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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