'Azzun, Falamiya North Checkpoint (914), Falamiya South Checkpoint (935)
13:00 – Falamie North CP. Owing to a mishap we arrived after the opening of the CP, so that we were unable to talk with the farmers before the passage. A few tractors and empty trucks passed in both directions and a few youngsters who passed by foot and were collected by cars and tractors which waited for them at the barrier
13:40 – Falamie South CP. The soldiers are closing the gates. It seems not many people have passed.
We continue by the old system road to Jayyus and from there to Azzun for the traditional visit. We continued by way of the Eliyahu CP, where two trucks were standing at the checking post, to Habla for a visit to A. who wasn’t anymore at the plant nursery.
'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 North (914)
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Falamiya North (914) Opens 3 times a day for about 40 minutes each time. This checkpoint has extremely important for all farmers in the area since the previous, Falamya checkpoint opening routine of continuously open for 12 hours has been discontinued. This took place after the separation fence was moved westward following the High Court of Justice.
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Falamiya South (935)
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