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‘Anin, Tura-Shaked, Wed 13.11.13, Morning

Observers: Hanah and Yocheved (reporting)
Nov-13-2013
| Morning

 

Translation: Yael Bassis-Student

 

06:00 A'aneen checkpoint

The gate is open. Inspection takes place down the hill in the center of the checkpoint. We see those coming out as they go olive-picking. According to them all is "OK". Following pedestrians the tractors come out. Lucky those who had obtain Olive picking permit.

One of those going through complains that his wife can only join him if she crosses from the Barta'a-Rihan checkpoint, because her ID indicates that she was born in Jerusalem. The olive grove is near A'aneen and the Barta'a checkpoint is far away. How can she come and work with him? The Lord of the Checkpoints might have the answer. He had placed a request for two times already but to no avail. He plans to try once more, using the address of a Human Rights organization that we had given him. Insha'alla, this might work out for next year's olive picking season.

 

07:10– Tura-Shaked checkpoint

 The gate is not open yet. Soldiers arrive and inspection begins. Although two lines were formed, inspection takes place in one lane only.

Why?

Again, only the Lord of the Checkpoints has the answer.

The children's transportation van arrives and the kids jump down and go through without inspection , waiting for the van on the other side.

Occupation and its injustice continues with no interruptions.

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      '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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    • 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.

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