‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 27.4.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
06:05 A'anin CP
About 15 people want to go through the CP from the side of the Palestinian village A'anin to the seamline zone. They have hoes and shovels. A man with a work permit is not allowed through. His friend says that he is employed as a laborer on the farm of his neighbor and still he was not allowed to go through.
06:45 Reihan – Barta'a CP
The passage is relatively quick. There are no delays in the terminal. On the road that passes through the CP and goes down to the West Bank, there is a sign: "FOR (OWNERS OF) ISRAELI LICENCE PLATES", as if it is not clear that there is this damned classification. About seven loaded pickup trucks and a few taxis are waiting for inspection. Only a few drivers are waiting.
07:15 Shaked-Tura CP
The first people to go from the West Bank to the seamline zone complain about a rude soldier in the CP who creates a bad atmosphere. They say that he curses, yells, insults and humiliates people. We do not know who they are talking about.
A detainee of about 14, on his way to school in Ya'abed (a big village in the area, the West Bank), is sitting on the stone step near the security guard. The boy's uncle, the teacher S., bursts out in the direction of the soldiers. He has come back and asks why the boy is being detained and why they do not free him to go to school. The soldier shouts at him trying to make him go away. The man refuses to move and demands an explanation. There is an interchange of yelling that leads apparently to some pushing. From where we are standing, we hear curses in Hebrew. The soldier demands that the teacher sit down on the ground. The teacher refuses: "Shoot me, I will not sit down!" The place is filled with rude expressions: "Shut up!" "Quiet!" "Shut up, you bum!" "Maniac!" This is a show for an audience of those going through and those waiting in the CP. Now the uncle and the boy are detained until a police car arrives. Those coming out of the CP tell us that the soldier who inspected the boy's schoolbag threw everything in it on the ground. The boy, who does not understand Hebrew, wanted to go to school quickly because it was late and apparently did not understand that the soldier called him. A reminder: Now the two detainees are surrounded by eleven armed soldiers and the passage is going on very slowly.
The Mukhtar (head) of the nearby village, Daher-el-Malek, arrives and tries to calm things down, but even he could not convince the soldiers to free the boy.
08:00 – People express their opinions about the State [of Israel] and of the army to us; each person in his own way tells about the humiliation that they have to bear every morning when they go out and every evening when they return.
09:00 The police car arrives. We hope that the affair will now end. But no! The police car leaves after three quarters of an hour and we learn that immediately another car will arrive to arrest the teacher.
09:40 On the way to the Reihan CP we get the telephone number of the teacher S. At the CP itself, after a short wait, we handed over the bags of clothing. We bought some olive oil and left. At the vehicle CP we declared that we have oil in the car and we were detained for inspection.
Epilogue: At this time, the teacher S. is under arrest, awaiting trial at the Regional Brigade in Hawara. This is happening to him because he has demanded consideration for his nephew and refused to obey the humiliating instructions of the soldiers at the CP.
We are following this and will continue to report on how things unfold.
'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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