‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 2.2.09, Afternoon
At 15:10 the sergeant major from the DCO arrives. He phones to find out why the gate is still closed. In the meantime, we ask why so few people are waiting. Is this because of the policy of not giving agricultural permits? He says that the small number of people is exactly the problem. In the morning about 150 people went through – 80% of them on the list of those with permits. That is to say, most of those who went out in the morning do not return in the afternoon. In his opinion, there is no general policy not to grant agricultural permits.
At 15:12 a commandcar arrives. The gate is opened and the sergeant major places himself near the concrete hut.
At 15:18 the first person goes through – an old man riding on a donkey. The sergeant major helps the soldiers in their work and it is carried out quickly and calmly.
At 15:32 a tractor loaded with plastic rubbish for recycling (at the plant in Jenin). It goes through without any problem and so do the other tractors.
At 15:38 the CP is empty.
A courteous soldier excuses the lateness in opening the CP because there were fuel problems in his vehicle. The sergeant major notifies us that on Thursday many permits will be confiscated. We stiffen – and then he corrects himself and says that he will interrogate those who have not returned today, warn them, give them a second chance, but no, it's not really possible to confiscate the permits. We call his attention to the piles of garbage in the area of the CP and he promises to take care of it. It seems that he has something to do with the great gardening at the Barta'a CP and he is proud of it.
16:05 Shaked-Tura CP
A new company of soldiers is at the CP. "The soldiers are good today," says one of the people going through. There is very little traffic. A herd of sheep returns from the area of the isolated house; a herd of goats is transported on a small truck, and goes through quickly in the direction of the West Bank.
16:30 Reihan-Barta'a CP
The lower parking lot is full of cars waiting for workers. They arrive in small groups. Four cars are being inspected. Two cars, a taxi and a small pickup truck are waiting in the road. The owner of the taxi, A.M., approaches us and claims that he always has to go through a special inspection because of "alerts". About a year ago his taxi was taken apart for no reason whatsoever; there was damage that cost him thousands of shekels and he still has not received the compensation that is coming to him.
At 16:45 the cars leave the inspection shed. The taxi and the pickup truck mentioned above enter.
17:00 In the upper sleeve at the entrance to the terminal the traffic is very thin. "Go to the Shaar Efraim CP; there they've had a lot of problems in the morning." There are also problems in Tira. The passage there is very slow and the employers wait only until 6:45; that is why workers leave Ya'abed at 3 a.m.
'Anin checkpoint (214)
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'Anin checkpoint (214)
'Anin checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence east of the Israeli community Mei Ami and close to the village of Anin in the West Bank. It is opened twice a week, morning and afternoon, on days with shorter light time, for Anin farmers whose olive groves have been separated from the village by the fence it became difficult to cultivate their land. Transit permits are only issued to those who can produce ownership documents for their caged-in land, and sometimes only to the head of the family or his widow, eldest son, and children. Sometimes the inheritors lose their right to tend to the family’s land. The permits are eked out and are re-issued only with difficulty. 55-year-old persons may cross the checkpoint (into Israel) without special permits. During the olive harvest season (about one month around October) the checkpoint is open daily and more transit permits are issued. Names of persons eligible to cross are held in the soldiers’ computers. In July 2007, a sweeping instruction was issued, stating that whoever does not return to the village through this checkpoint in the afternoon will be stripped of his transit permit when he shows up there next time. Since 2019, the checkpoint has not been allways locked with the seam-line zone gate (1 of 3 gates), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.
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Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
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