‘Anin, Jalama, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Thu 13.5.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
A'anin Checkpoint, 06:15
The lucky ones who have permits are crossing to the seamline zone. Others note anxiously that their permits will expire in June or September, before the olive harvest. The inspections are taking place near the western gate and it is easy for us to observe what is going on.
A woman and youth get off of a tractor and a lengthy discussion takes place. The woman and youth are sent back and return and only the tractor is allowed to pass. Evidently the youth is already 16 years old and can no longer cross using his mother's permit. The mother wanted to visit Um el Reihan and must go back. As usual we see the smiling Bedouin children going to school. The occupation does not matter to them.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint, 07:00
Four cars are waiting on either side of the checkpoint. One is covered with red Valentine's Day hearts. People have to wait about four minutes but the time accumulates. The school children show the soldiers their schoolbags as they cross. The small children arrive by car. They are colorful and happy and unintentionally bring happiness to the checkpoint. People are waiting near the turnstile as well as a donkey and a herd of goats.
At the parking lot at the Reihan Barta'a checkpoint six trucks are waiting to be checked. On the hill opposite Zibda cars are parked on both sides of the locked gates that block the main road. The people who are profiting are the drivers who are waiting for passengers who need to be driven the two-minute ride to the checkpoint.
07:50 – Dotan Checkpoint
Traffic to Jenin and to the Dotan valley is moving freely. A brand new car is being checked. A soldier asks curiously who we are but does not really take any interest in the answer. The checkpoint commander then informs us that Israeli Arabs pass through here in order to continue on the road to Area A in both directions.
08:10 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lot on the Palestinian side is almost completely full. The checkpoint staff has left the yellow gate open in order to allow people to turn around. There are no pedestrians waiting and people are going through quickly in groups of five.
09:20 – Jalameh Crossing
There is no traffic of workers at this hour. Several cars are waiting at the vehicle checkpoint. We pick up Aya and her grandmother to take them to her daily dialysis treatment at Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
'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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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