‘Azzun ‘Atma, Tue 17.3.09, Afternoon
12:20
The new checkpoint with the tower and provisional cement blocks. 3 policemen man the place and another jeep with officers arrives together with another army car. The gate is closed and cars and people and children passing through have to show a permit and an ID which shows that they are residents of Azzun Atma. We tried to find out if we could get to the southern gate which encloses the village. We were told that for that we had to ask for special permission from the army and that the police were only there until the soldiers came. The police were aware of our complaints about the transfer of move in sufficient quantities to the residents living across the road/checkpoint and said that "we are only not allowed to let through commercial quantities of goods…because maybe the tomatoes in boxes are poisoned…" There were hardly any people going through the checkpoint.
'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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