‘Azzun, Falamiya
This time a different report:
We arrived at the checkpoint – the agricultural gate at Falamiya – about 10 minutes before its opening so that we had time to have a conversation with the persons who were waiting for the opening of the ”bawabi” (gate).
We met a man who is a doctor for sport science and who teaches at the university, and an advocate from Qalqiliya. Both have a family ownership of land plots, so that in their entry permit it is written “an agricultural laborer. They explained to us that they come to their orchards to seek quiet and rest from the stressful life in the town.
About 25 workers passed by the gate.
'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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Falamiya
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