‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:30 – 09:45
It is Purim today and there is a closure only to those leaving the West Bank for work in Israel.*
At the Shaked checkpoint they also would not let us exit to the industrial area, Shahak (seamline zone).* There are fewer Palestinians because of the closure and the lateness of the morning hour *. Our French guest, who examines the economic conditions of the residents of East Barta’a within the framework of a survey project, was interested in seeing a passage for Palestinians who need income and who work in Israel.
Agricultural Checkpoint Anin, 06:30
The checkpoint was opened a few minutes before the official time.
The residents complained about the aggressiveness of the checkpoint soldiers, about the Bedouin unit, and especially about someone who, it appears, is the commander of the shift: they scream, do a search of their clothing and underneath their clothes. According to them, at least 7 people were returned home because of a suspicion that they were not on their way to work on the land. This is an old game: “I see that according to your clothes that you are not going to work on your land . . .” The army is more nervous than usual these days. We were asked to speak with one of the soldiers on this shift but a senior officer forbid him from making contact. . .
A man of about 60 apologized that he doesn’t know English well (in order to converse with Yoachim) but he knows Spanish, Portuguese and Italian . . . His story: He studied medicine in Italy and worked in Brazil. When he returned to Anin, and requested a transit permit to work in the hospital in Jenin, the Israelis would not recognize his doctor’s certificate and would not grant him a transit permit. Today he does not work as a doctor. A young man requested to know what his friend needs to do about an agricultural permit that they won’t renew for him. He took the telephone number for the Protection of Individual Rights (We were amazed to hear that the center was suddenly revealed?? For several years we have referred problems of transfer permits to them. )
Tura-Shaked Checkpoint, 07:20
People are angry because the checkpoint opened at 07:00 and not at 06:30 as was agreed upon with the Occupation force not long ago. Only on the first four days of the week, the checkpoint passage begins at 06:30; on Thursday, Friday and Shabbat, it opens at 07:00 and therefore it is difficult to arrive at work on time. Relative to what we are used to, many more than usual passed through at that hour.
'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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