‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Photos from Anin Checkpoint: Farmers return by tractor and by mule from the olive harvest with sacks of olives. Bottom right: Talking with Yocheved about their tribulations.
We arrived early in order to have enough time at Anin as well. It is 15:00. Traffic at Tura-Shaked Checkpoint is light. We spoke with those who passed through and who were returning home. The driver who transports people in his taxi from checkpoint to checkpoint, a pleasant, smiling man, tells us in a joking mood how they occasionally abuse him at the checkpoint. Recently, they checked his big, black car and were suspicious of the upholstery in the back seat. They groped and pounded and decided that there was something suspicious inside the seat and simply tore (!) the upholstery and exposed the back section of the automobile. Not only did theynot find anything, they didn’t think there was a need to compensate the driver for the damage. And so, with the back seat torn, he drives back and forth . . .who will pay for it?
15:30 Ba’arta-Reihan Checkpoint
Dozens of young people, in groups and individually, hurry to return home. Those who bypass the signing-in counter are those who work in Israel and are exempt from signing in. The others gather in a line and sign in quickly.
16:10 Anin Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open. A considerable number of people who have finished harvesting olives are waiting, tired from a day’s work. Three tractors, two donkey foals wait patiently.
Again we encounter the problem of limited permits, a phenomenon that repeats itself every year during the olive harvest: A woman goes out by herself to harvest olives in the family orchard because they don’t give a work permit to her husband; a very old man whose son did not receive a permit, only for the olive harvest. Particularly during this season the Liaison and Coordination Administration remembers that all kinds of relatives can help with the harvest, but they come up with endless excuses to deny them passage at the checkpoint. Therefore, every year we see men and women, some of them very old, who work to the last ounce of their strength. The soldiers who worked today at this checkpoint tried to help and dragged sacks of olives with their own hands, but emphasized that they could not do more, following instructions from above.
'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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