‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Habla
05:48 Azzun Atma
There are approximately 70 people waiting to pass the checkpoint. There are two stations open as well as some of the men pass by the electronic machines, putting their ID on one and then their finger, to read their finger print, and they pass.
There is some commotion in the queue and a solider pulls a Palestinian out of the line and takes his ID, sits him down not far from us, we are not sure what happened. He isn’t cuffed, maybe because we are there? Of course at this time everything stops and no one passes, after a few minutes it resumes. Hanna calls the Humanitarian Ctr. and spoke with L.
We spoke to an employer from kibutz Palmachim, who came to pick up his workers, he tells us that some come from Jenin, and start their day as early as 03:00.
06:08there is another commotion in the queue 2 men start to climb the fence, we hear a crash of glass; the officer takes both men to the side, cuffs the one that attacked and the other man took his ID. Hanna calls the Humanitarian ctr. and speaks to S. The ID was returned.
An officer comes to where we are and moves the Palestinians who stand next to us to the other side of the road, in the usual abrupt manner of the soldiers.
A Police car pulls up from the road and a man gets out and is escorted back through the gate.
An army jeep comes out from Azzun.
06:45Checking with one of the Palestinians, we find the queue takes 25 minutes, there’s still a lot of men waiting, approximately 30, we leave for Habla.
07:09 Habla
As we arrive we see 5 men coming out of the checking post.
We see one returns to Habla after coming out of the checking post, we are told by some men that he didn’t want to give his ID.
There’s quite a few people waiting, but the queue moves, allowing, as usual, 5 people at a time. Towards the closing, they allow even 6 – 7 at one time.
No school bus, we are told it is holiday for a month.
A security soldier comes to our side, stands there ‘playing’ with his phone the entire time.
08:00 Gate closes
'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.
Nina SebaAug-18-2025Habla: The gate is in the process of closing
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