‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla, Tue 4.12.12, Afternoon
We thought of going to Kufr a-Dik to learn more about what happened there the previous night, but I saw that Dalya was going there to document what occurred so we chose a different route.
13:30 Habla
Three horse carts wait on our side, the large gate is open and a soldier with weapon drawn guards the crossing. People cross according to the usual procedure. Some people go through on foot in each directions, as well as a group of three not very young children, apparently returning from school.
13:40 The first school bus goes through, not before the soldier and female officer boarded and then exited from it. Recently there have been very few pupils on the bus. This time we received an explanation: the residents of the village of Arab a-Ramadan have opened a new school, in a tent, for the little children. Next time we’ll go visit them.
All this while a huge truck stands there, heavily loaded with building material for a greenhouse on the Habla side. The coordinator (between the DCO and the soldiers at the gate) complains he’d already obtained a permit the previous day, but he was forced to contact the DCO again and wait even though the truck arrived before the gate opened. The officer gets on the truck and then gets off, as does one of the soldiers.
14:10 The large truck manoeuvers through the gates and crosses; then it’s the turn of the second bus transporting the girls in their school uniforms.
14:20 Eliyahu gate. A number of cars wait at the exit in the northern lane; perhaps they’ll be sent for inspection.
14:30 Azzun
The barbed wire fences are prominent all along the way beyond Nabi Elias. Lots of activity in Azzun’s main street; things are being brought to Zaharan’s new shop. Today he’s scheduled to be examined at Ichilov hospital.
We return to Highway 55 and drive through Emanuel to Highway 5, enter Hars for an update but the shops are closed and we hadn’t made an appointment with anyone at the municipality.
We continue toward Azzun Atma. A few cars are being inspected in the facility at the Shomron gate.
Buses go through the Oranim terminal but we saw no Palestinians. We continued to Azzun Atma.
15:30 Azzun Atma
The large tent we saw being erected last week has been completed, and a metal fence has also been erected along the road to the left of the crossing. We don’t know what it’s concealing. About eight Palestinians waiting next to the building go through pretty quickly. From time to time additional Palestinians who have permits to work in Israel or in the settlements arrive in Israeli vehicles, in groups of 10 or 20, and go through the checkpoint with no delays.
'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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