‘Azzun, Habla, Wed 19.1.11, Afternoon
Translator: Charles K.
15:10 We got on a neglected road and knew for certain that we’re in Palestine.
15:15 We reached the village of Brukin, near the Barkan industrial zone. From there we drove to the village of A-Dik. At the grocery store they reported a water shortage. It didn’t surprise us.
16:00 Kafr Haris. We visited the Da’ud family. They told us they’re not allowed to come near the fence and get to their almond groves. Every time they try, shots come from the nearby settlement. The settlers also come down to the village from time to time and break windows. The head of the family’s nephew said he’s suing the settlement of Barkan for damages because of a work accident. The case is to be heard in court in Tel Aviv, but he doesn’t have a permit to enter Israel to attend.
17:00 An army jeep parked across from Azzun.
17:10 Habla agricultural gate: It’s open. Laborers go through.
'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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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.
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