At Tura c.p weekend starts in Thurthday
Photo: Neta Golan A’anin Checkpoint
06:00 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
Many people were waiting for their rides in the parking lot on the seamline zone side. Most were sitting on the sides of the road or standing and waiting and more people continued to come up the sleeve.
We were surprised to find that on the Palestinian side there was no waiting line and the parking lot was not full. People continued to arrive by car and on foot and entered immediately. The Palestinian attendants spoke to us through a translator and explained that each morning 3,500 to 4,000 people arrive at the checkpoint. There are no fewer people today, but in the past few days things are running smoothly and quickly. They also told us that the parking lot fills up when taxis arrive to take people home from work. An elderly man who spoke fluent Hebrew explained that the checkpoint is not crowded because when things run smoothly people don’t need to arrive two hours beforehand. He worked for 31 years in Israel with a building contractor who is now building in Eilat, but his permit does not include Eilat. He is now waiting for a ride to his job in Ara.
The prayer corner under the awning has not yet been completed. There are no partitions: only rugs and a mattress. Someone informed us that the checkpoint managers have not permitted them to put up partitions.
Photo: The prayer corner at Barta’a Checkpoint. It is not permitted to build partitions. Photo: Neta Golan
06:30 – A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers arrived together with us and opened the checkpoint and the first person crossed ten minutes later at 06:40. People crossed quickly and about 50 people and 5 tractors crossed. We did not wait for the checkpoint to close.
07:00 Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint was not opened until 07:00. We don’t understand the extended weekend at this checkpoint. When everything is “as it should be” it is supposed to open on Sunday – Wednesday at 06:30 and at 06:30 and on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday it is supposed to open at 07:00. Why? Are they not aware that this is a regular work day? A group of women crossed who work in a sewing factory in the Shahak industrial zone. Here, too, people crossed quickly.
At 07:20 school children begin to arrive who live in the seamline zone and who go to school in the Palestinian village of Tura – on the other side of the checkpoint. The children who live in the isolated house that is cut off from the village of Tura by the separation barrier cannot cross through the short route and have to take the dirt road around to the crossing point.
07:40 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
We returned to Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint to take ad father and his son to Rambam Hospital as part of the “Road to Recovery” organization. The father, who lives in the village of Kafin, also noted that they had crossed quickly. There are now only a few people waiting for rides. Taxis are waiting for people who will cross at 08:00 who work in the garages and stores in Barta’a.
'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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