‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Jayyus, Mon 5.8.13, Morning
'Observers: Rahel A., Rahel Y., Nora R.(reporting)
06:00: A new addition to the CP: The entrance courtyard is shut off by three plastic barriers(?). "Military zone" – announces the hostile sergeant: "Off bounds and you cannot pass through". When we finally got there we found a considerable number of Palestinians already outside, awaiting their employers. At the entrance we found, near a police vehicle, a policeman and a non-uniformed man armed with a revolver on his belt, and three ankle-cuffed young Palestinians. Before we had a chance to inquire on what was going on, the man opened the detainees' cuffs and sent them off to their village through the CP.
06:10: Night-shift workmen from the Hanson Plant arrive and the soldier told them to line up at the entrance and pass through one-by-one for computer checking. I remarked that this procedure was unusual, to which he replied that it was in favor of the workmen as they needed to be on the computer list confirming that they had returned. He then added that he wouldn't go on talking with me. The Palestinians confirmed that when they had entered Israel they hadn't gone through an electronic procedure at all.
Five youths arrived at the CP from the main road. Apparently they had crossed through with appropriate permits and an army jeep stopped them, confiscated their ID's and told them to return to the CP to get them back. They were walking with great effort, perspiring in the heat, and angry! The soldier returned their ID's and sent them off back to 'Azzun-'Atma. The "military zone" enclosure prevented me from trying to clarify what was going on! No one to talk to!
06:50: Left the CP area.
07:15: Habla: The gate is open and the process of checking the Palestinians in groups of five is going on. A novelty is a further check-up by a military-police-woman who again checks all the permits before allowing them to go on their way.
Towards the closure of the CP we were off to N. in Jayyus and brought him a pack of old clothes. Further parcels were delivered to Z. in 'Azzun.
'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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Jayyus North (935)
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