‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan
05:45 Barta’a Riehan Checkpoint
Many laborers are outside the checkpoint waiting for their shared rides to work. Some hold mugs of coffee. There’s nowhere to sit and no protection from the cold wind.
We drive to the lower parking lot and park outside so that we won’t get blocked in. The lot is organized and very crowded. The line, as well, is long but neat. About seventy people pass through the carousel at a time and are immediately swallowed by the terminal. The carousel is soon reopened.
06:10 The line is still reasonable and moving quickly, many young people among it. We chat with our contractor friend Z., who checks to see that all his workers have passed through.
We see no sign of the promised covering to shade the area.
As we leave the line is continuing to move rapidly.
06:25 Anin Checkpoint
Soldiers by the gate are struggling with the key when we arrive. Once open they drive through and come back to close (but not lock) the gate. Karin wonders why that’s necessary? For the soldiers’ safety? For the sake of order?
06:32 The first laborers cross through the checkpoint into the seam zone. The olive harvest is complete and the checkpoint is open only twice per week during regular hours. We see many young people among those crossing.
Approximately 100 people cross through quickly.
06:50 The המת“ק representative arrives and joins the others examining. It seems one young man is sent home.
07:00 The tractors arrive at the gate, but the first has a problem – it isn’t permitted to transport olive oil.
A total of only three tractors pass through; the farmers tell us that there is more work to be done in the fields.
07:15 Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint opens on time. The residents say: “The soldiers are good.”
The crossing is fast and no one is being detained or delayed on either side of the checkpoint. Apparently it’s possible.
The students pass through.
07:30 We leave. We turn right by the base and immediately are in the “land of the settlers” – Shaked, Hinannit, and Tal Menashe. Gorgeous views!
'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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