‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 19.9.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
A'anin Checkpoint, 06:20
We were greeted at the junction by smiling Palestinians. We did not stay because we wanted to get to the gate at A'anin before it closed, but we hurried for no reason. When we got there a large number of Palestinians were still waiting by the far gate to cross. An elderly woman crossed, smiling happily, and showed us a permit that she had received from mid-February until the end of December. She is the only one in her family who received a permit. There is still hope that others will receive permits for the olive harvest. However, others have not received permits and often only one family member receives a permit while the older sons (who need to work in the harvest) receive none. Despite this, there is a happy atmosphere. Hopefully there will be happy times in Palestine and Israel.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint – 07:08 – 07:50
The checkpoint is open and operating. The routine is as usual: the two elegant bankers have crossed, the small children have crossed on their way to school, and vehicles have passed through. I approached the soldier at the gate to ask whether they had heard about the rumor that the opening hour would be moved to 06:00 without changing the closing hour, and he answered that they had not.
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint, 08:00
The Palestinian parking lot is already filled with private vehicles. A driver wearing a red Kaffiyeh lies fast asleep on the bed in the corner of the prayer section under the shed. A few drivers asked us to bring used clothing for children. Everything is routine and people enter the terminal as usual. A., our friend, is absent. He is either retired or driving a truck: we are not sure which and there are rumors of both. Six cars and one commercial vehicle are waiting to have their papers checked in front of the inspection facility.
We drove to the Dotan Checkpoint to meet B, who has bottles of olive oil that we ordered. We stopped by some olive trees on the way and didn't see any fruit. B. says that the smoke from the charcoal factories is damaging the trees and the yield. Contrary to my report of last week, the charcoal factories are still working, except for the one on the way to Hermesh. Near the factory adjacent to Emricha there are piles of wood to be used as raw materials.
'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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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