‘Azzun ‘Atma, Wed 10.8.11, Morning
Translator: Hanna K.
Azzun Atma 06:10
About 50 workmen wait outside for transportation. At the queue about 100 people plod along. All the time new people join the queue. The workmen are checked at two windows, and also by a military policewoman who sits on a chair by a table with a gun on her knees. She writes the name of every person who leaves in a copybook. What does one do with three lists or about 250 people isn't clear. A soldiers stands next to the girl soldier and guards her, when he goes somewhere else she stops checking and stands up.
A man with a child stand next to the main gate to pass without standing in the queue, the soldiers checks them and lets them pass. After they move away the soldier discovers this and calls them urgently back. She takes their documents and begins phoning, and moves away so that she shouldn't be heard. Two minutes later she lets them pass.
Agricultural Gate near Azzun Atma 07:00
The agricultural gate is open between 07:00 to 07:30.
We entered a road which began with a gate that was open. We drove along a narrow paved road along the fence to the gate. A military jeep stopped next to us and an officer who sat in it told us that this was a security road in which civilian vehicle was not allowed to drive. We pointed out that there were no signpost to that effect, and he referred us to the fact that there was a gate at the entrance to this road and that he opened it. The military jeep continued on, and then another jeep arrived, whose mission was to open the agricultural gate. He told us that we could stay, but that a civilian vehicle couldn't stay on this road. In the meantime he did not open the gate and began phoning. Since there was no other alternative Nura returned with the car to the main road and came back on foot a distance of almost one kilometer.
In the meantime the soldiers opened the gate and young boys passed through it on foot or on bicycles, 2 carts, one tender and a flock of sheep headed by a shepherd on a donkey. One Palestinian was forced to return, as well as a small truck and its driver. When we enquired why we were told that their papers were not in order
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'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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