In recent weeks, the town of Azzun bid farewell to two of its best sons, the boy Muhammad Salim (15 years old) and the young man Azzam Salim (20 years old), who were killed by the bullets of the occupation, with a difference of a few days, as the people confronted the repeated attempts of the occupation to storm the town.

It is certain for the people of the town that the danger still exists and that the occupation bullets will claim more lives, as the ambitions of the occupation and settlers in their town and their lands have not stopped since the occupation in 1967.

At a distance of 25 km to the west of Nablus, and 10 km to the east of Qalqilya, lies the town of Azzun, which over time was a safe haven, but today it is being devoured by the claws of occupation and settlement.

Azzun belongs administratively to the Qalqilya Governorate, while it was previously part of the Tulkarm district, while the days of Turkish rule followed the Salfit district, and before that, during the Mamluk era, it was the last village in the northern district of Jerusalem.

The strategic location of the town, which is inhabited by about 10,000 people, which links the governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, and Tulkarem to each other, and is characterized by the fertility of its lands, remained the aspiration of the occupation and settlers. In recent years, settlements have devoured vast areas of its lands, which amount to about 27 thousand dunums, and it is now surrounded by settlements and the apartheid wall. And bypass streets and military watch towers that monitor every incoming and outgoing.

The mayor of Azzun, Ahmed Inaya, says that the people of his town were distinguished by their steadfastness and the defense of their lands throughout history. They participated in the revolutions that took place previously, such as the "Al-Buraq Revolution", the "36" revolution and the "39" revolution.

In the 1936 revolution, one of the townspeople, Faris al-Azouni, was leading a group resisting the British Mandate. He was captured by the British, but he managed to escape from Acre prison, until he was re-arrested in Syria and executed there in 1940.

Also, during the revolution of the "36", the martyr Fatima Ghazal died, and it is said that she is the first Palestinian martyr in that revolution, and her memory was immortalized by naming her name to the Azzun Girls School, "The School of the Martyr Fatima Ghazal."

Inaya added that the series of sacrifices continues. In recent weeks, two of the town's residents were martyred, and about a year ago there was another martyr, along with dozens of wounded and prisoners of the town's residents.

He pointed out that the occupation and settlers surround the town from every side, and they have turned the lives of its people into hell. For example, there is the street that the occupation calls "55" Street, and it is located at the entrance of Azzun, and it is always a scene of events and confrontations with the occupation forces and settlers, and there are also gates Al-Hodeidah, which the occupation uses to lock down the town and besiege the rest of its lands, noting that the occupation and settlements have taken control of about half of the town's lands.

He pointed out that the occupation greatly restricts farmers and landowners, as it prevents them from reaching their lands to plow, cultivate, reclaim, or pick their olives, and it also prevents agricultural tractors, "barrows" and bulldozers that people need to reclaim their lands, from walking through Street 55 and reaching Their lands near the street, and whoever wants to do so must obtain special permits in this regard.

Inaya confirmed that they aspire to do projects in the village, including the development of the water and electricity network, and the street networks. There is a project that worries the municipality, which is the sewage networks project, as it has not been implemented due to the lack of funding to work on it.