ברטעה-ריחן, טורה-שקד, עאנין
06:00 – Barta’a – Reihan Checkpoint, Evening of the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot
We immediately understood that the checkpoint would only open at 07:00 because of the approaching holiday, so we drove to A’anin checkpoint.
06:20 – A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers arrived at the same time we did. At 06:28 five farmers crossed the checkpoint to work in their fields located on the other side of the fence that separates them from their village.
We heard loud shouting from the far gate located in the middle of the checkpoint and crossing was halted.
A vehicle from the Liaison and Coordination Administration arrives and parks near the middle gate. At 06:40 we heard a soldier calling: “Get back! You, get back!” At 06:55 the soldiers were still waiting for people to calm down. We heard people shouting: “Open! Open!” At 07:00 the soldiers opened the middle gate and entered. The first worker came through at 07:03. We heard loud shouting and quarrelling near the gate and after a minute the soldiers locked the gate again. At 07:15 the soldiers opened the gate again but the shouting resumed, and at 07:25 the soldiers locked the inner gate and left. Apparently they had forced the people to move back and locked the gate. About 200 people who had gotten up to go to work never got there. An Israeli Arab who was standing with us condemned the behavior of the residents of A’anin and condoned the behavior of the soldiers. However, it appears that despite the efforts of the soldiers to operate the checkpoint, a large number of people were punished and prevented from going to work because of the bad behavior of a few.
unable to get to work.
07:40 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
We were told that the checkpoint opened on time. A man and woman arrive on their way to harvest olives. The schoolchildren arrive from Dahar Al Malakh on the road leading up to the checkpoint.
08.00 Barta`a checkpoint
The parking attendants informed us that the parking lot was not full today because there was a closure due to the holiday and people are not working as usual. At 08:15 a short line formed because an army jeep entered the checkpoint from the security road. People who work in Barta’a and in the seamline zone will be able to return later as usual.
Photo: A short line at Barta’a Checkpoint
'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)
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