‘Azzun ‘Atma, Wed 3.6.09, Morning
6.50 The checkpoint is empty except for some who arrived at various times.
There are two soldiers where the workers are and a DCO representative. They say that this morning there were no problems. The Palestinians say too that it was fairly good. On the other side of the road workers still wait most of who are going to work in the settlements. Every now and again an Israeli car stops and the workers are gathered into it some as has been determined earlier and some by change. Not all are from Azzun Atma, They say that at the checkpoint at the bottom of Azzun the pressure is great. By the time we left nearly all the workers had been collected and we left at 7.30 for Huwwara.
'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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