‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Fri 12.2.10, Morning
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Azzun – A cab driver speaking fluent Hebrew, told us that the army used to enter the village and threaten the people living there. Sometimes they come driving in their Jeeps hooting and making noise. The villagers also suffer from the settlers in Kadum who throw stones at them. He also told us that two weeks ago the army had put up a gate with a lock at the exit towards Israel. They close it at irregular hours and the villagers are not allowed to pass. In many cases the children in the village are caught and accused of throwing stones. The villagers are cut off from their land. At the main entrance to Azun there used to be an additional gate, which had been taken away a few days before our visit. There are two security positions with soldiers watching the village.
The cabdriver, who is the father of ten, told us that when the gate is closed he cannot work and that the village has turned into a prison. For twenty years he had been working at maintenance and as gardener at the pool at Bet Berl. After the intifada he had left.
The marble and ceramics plants are closed since the village is closed. The driver also told us that a few days ago the soldiers said that they had heard of stone throwing in the village. He had tried to convince them that no stone throwing had taken place. The soldiers asked for his I.D. card and then they said: " Take your car and get out of here."
10.50
Azzun Atma (The Tikva Gate) – One car was carefully checked.
11.25
The Habla Gate – By mistake we reached the Hable gate after having driven through the plant nurseries. We were lucky to find the gate open. The soldier returned and asked us how we had reached Hable.
'Azzun
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Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
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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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Habla
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Habla CP (1393)
The Habla checkpoint (1393) was established on the lands of the residents of Qalqilya, on the short road that
connected it for centuries to the nearby town of Habla. The separation barrier intersects this road twice and cut off the residents of Qalqilya from their lands in the seam zone.(between the fence and the green line).
There is a passage under Road 55 that connects Qalqilya to the sabotage This agricultural barrier is used by the farmers and nursery owners established along Road 55 from the Green Line and on both sides of the kurkar road leading to the checkpoint.
This agricultural checkpoint serves the residents of Arab a-Ramadin al-Janoubi (detached from the West Bank), who pass through it to the West Bank and back to their homes. The opening hours (3 times a day) of this agricultural checkpoint are longer than usual, about an hour (recently shortened to 45 minutes), and are coordinated with the transportation hours of a-Ramadin children studying in the occupied in the West Bank.Ronit Dahan-RamatiApr-25-2025Habla Checkpoint: system of gates
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