'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
A’anin Checkpoint
For many years we have been witness to the refusal of soldiers to allow people from A’anin to bring junk through the checkpoint to be recycled (does it constitute a security risk?” We never understood and we were ashamed. Today we were amazed to see several tractors loaded with plastic and metal that were waiting to cross. Evidently it is now permitted. As the hour grew later and later (the checkpoint was due to open from 15:00 – 15:30) and as 15:30 approached and there were still no soldiers in sight, a call to the Liaison and Coordination Administration accomplished nothing. At 15:30 a military jeep approached and then drove on. Ten minutes later a civilian car approached from the other side and reservist soldiers leisurely made their way to the concrete barriers and hesitantly opened the gates. At first they opened the gates on the side of the village and then slowly made their way towards us. Everyone crossed without being checked and happily made their way home to rest before breaking their fast in the evening at iftar. The checkpoint closed at 16:00 after the two soldiers succeeded in locking the rusty lock on the gate.
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
The area around the garbage can is littered with pizza cartons. Every time we remind the soldiers about the litter they answer: “It’s theirs, not ours.” The checkpoint is filled with equipment and the benches on the seamline zone side under the awning where people wait have been broken and pulled up. This checkpoint is a “fabric of life” checkpoint and is open all day, but there is little traffic here except for the hours when people are coming and going from work.
Dahar-al-Malec
Along the road on the side of the village of Tura there is a row of electric poles with wires strung between then. There is a central pole standing at the entrance to the village of Dahar al Malec, but there are still no electric poles in the village. There is no one out in the village. Are they waiting for the fast to break? For electricity? Before 1967 they had no electricity, but we are the conquerors and are supposed to see to the welfare of the people under our jurisdiction.
Hermesh Checkpoint
We visit this checkpoint only occasionally. When the road to Yaabed was embedded with cracks, this road was also embedded. At Yaabed Checkpoint the cracks were filled in but there are still speed bumps here that the car must drive over.
Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint
We did not see any army jeeps or soldiers on the road or at the checkpoint. A few cars drove through to Area A and some Israeli cars drove up to the settlement of Mevo Dotan.
Barta’a Checkpoint
17:00 – It is already late for people to be returning during Ramadan. Most of the people working in construction in Harish have already come, and a few dozen are still crossing. We did not walk down to the entrance to the terminal because we know there is no one checking and only the turnstile occasionally gives people problems.
'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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