‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tayba-Rummana, Tura-Shaked, Ya’bed-Dotan
Reihan Checkpoint: 06:40
There are many people at the entrance. I was happy to see the coffee seller (who stopped coming on Sabbaths). We passed the parking lot which was also completely filled. From a distance we saw the orderly line at the entrance; the private parking lot, whose continuation was also filled.
Harmesh: 06:45
From the west to the settlement of Harmesh, there is a cubed checkpoint and an open yellow gate. Three soldiers request aggressively that we go back for our own good. “You know that they run over, and cars travel to the checkpoint without stopping . . .” We understood: There is likely to be an attack in which someone is run over and with luck they won’t shoot at us. We had to give up on traveling to Kafin.
We notified A. that we will arrive another time. We met settlers in their cars who went out from the settlement of Harmesh.
Dotan-Ya’bed Checkpoint: 06:55
We didn’t see the army on the road nor the military vehicles that park between the olive trees next to the guard towers. The checkpoint is deserted. Cars pass without delay.
Reihan Checkpoint: 07:00
While we were waiting for the arm to rise, we saw a yellow school bus and mini buses at the settlers’ bus stop.
Agricultural Gate Anin: 07:10
Neta and Shuli were already there. The gate itself is closed. Many people stand at the intersection. They are happy to meet us.
Shaked Checkpoint (With Neta and Shuli): 07:20
Many people, many cars. We were also happy to hear about the earlier opening hour of 06:30.
Agricultural Gate Tayibe-Rumana (with Neta and Shuli): 08:05
Two border policemen opened the gate. The passage is quick. The gate is opened on time and closed on time. The older people stop and exchange words with Shuli and Neta. We hear that the people from Tayibe and Rumana are refugees from ’48 who live in Umm-al-Fahm.
09:00 – 10:30 Baka el Garbia With Neta Golan, gate 457, 526
Photo: A home within the wall and The wall between Baka el Garbia and baka el Sharqia (palestinian)
At the eastern edge of Palestine Street, which is in Baka el Garbia, we meet the concrete wall that is known to us. Baka el Sharkia is separated from the east of the wall . In front of the wall there is a wide open gate and in front of it are counters with vegetables and fruits. We passed through the gate and walked southward the length of the gate and fence, until Gate No. 526. Next to the gate there is a tower and an inspection booth. A mother with large sacks and two little children in a stroller, entered the inspection booth and left it, going to the carousel that turns in two directions.
The mother passed the At the eastern edge of Palestine Street, which is in Baka el Garbia, we meet the concrete wall that is known to us. Baka el Sharkia is separated from the east of the wall . In front of the wall there is a wide open gate and in front of it are counters with vegetables and fruits. We passed through the gate and walked southward the length of the gate and fence, until Gate No. 526. Next to the gate there is a tower and an inspection booth. A mother with large sacks and two little children in a stroller, entered the inspection booth and left it, going to the carousel that turns in two directions. The mother passed the children through and returned via the same carousel in order to pass through with the stroller. The mother and the children organized themselves at the concrete blocks by the wall and continued to walk. We entered through the inspection booth in order to ask about the opening hours and about the procedures. The booth was empty of people and no one responded to our call.
At the northern Gate 457, we traveled the length of the wall. An army van stops us near the gate. We were told that it was forbidden for us to travel on the road that is west of the wall. To the question of the opening hours, he didn’t have an answer. For the need to be given an answer to the question where is Gate 101, he called the Advanced Command Post. The female soldier, L., answered him and said she has never heard of the organization by the name of MachsomWatch. She explained that Gate 101 isn’t the number of the gate, but the number of his report line. (Salam’s report line is 100.)
'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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Tayba-Rummana
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Tayba-Rummana is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence. The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening. During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530). (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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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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