‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 20.8.09, Morning
06:05 – 06:30 A'anin CP
About 20 people are waiting in the middle of the CP near the gate. There are no special preparations for the Ramadan. Seven soldiers and among them a person from the DCO are listing the people after inspecting the bags they have in their hands. The passage is quick and without any particular delays.
We were told that those who go through regularly – the workers in the DCO industrial zone and the seamstresses have gone out to work. In the sleeve that goes up to the terminal we meet those waiting for rides to the seamline zone. In the lower parking lot, there are only a few private cars in comparison with other days. Apparently not many have gone through so far today. From 07:00 on, more workers arrive and are swallowed up in the terminal. They are completely indifferent to us; somebody throws out a quick 'Shalom' from time to time. We are part of the landscape of the occupation — old women and nobody knows why they come. They only write all the time.
Two pickup trucks loaded with food are waiting. In the upper inspection area, three are being inspected. All together there is very little traffic at this time.
On our way back we are asked if we received anything from the Palestinians. We answer in the negative and he allows us to leave without being inspected.
07:40 Tura CP
About 20 people are waiting near the turnstiles at the entrance to the inspection pavilion. The waiting time gets longer, as it has during recent weeks. When J. comes out he tells us that he waited for 40 minutes before he was inspected. People claim that the inspection and the recording are very slow; there are delays and every time for a different reason. Since 07:00 this morning only about 40 people have gone through.
A refined and pleasant man of about 50 wants to speak to us, on the condition that we do not mention his name. He is angry, quietly, because he is never believed. When he goes to the DCO (to ask for a permit to go to his land), they (the soldiers) simply lie to him, and he tells them the truth but no one listens to him. They only believe 'them' and that hurts him very much – the powerlessness to cope with the authorities and his inability to get what he should. 'They can do anything to me and I can't do anything to anybody. They are strong and the power is in their hands. I need a permit to go to my grandfather's land in order to bring home some livelihood? I need to bring papers? And all the time they tell me to go and come back…'
In the meantime the tempo increases and more people emerge.
In the direction of the West Bank only two young women went through, apparently students.
08:00 We left.
'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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