'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
14:50 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint was quiet and dirty. Only one person crossed to the West Bank while we were there.
15:15 – A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers were already in their places and opened the checkpoint on time. A vehicle from the District Coordination and Liaison Administration arrived, sounding its siren loudly. Two officers asked us if everything was all right. We told them that last week people did not know that the opening hours of the checkpoint had changed. They told us that they were not responsible and that they had told the Palestinian contact, who was supposed to inform the mayors of the villages.
About 30 people and three tractors were waiting to cross. The people were called in groups of three and their ID cards were checked. The tractor drivers were also called and checked and then crossed. A young man came, looking like he had been working in construction because he had plaster or paint on his clothes. He had a permit to work in agriculture, so the soldiers stopped him and questioned him. When they asked him where he had been working he replied that he had been working in construction. The soldier remarked: “You could have at least taken a shower!” The soldiers phoned and from what we could understand the young man’s agricultural permit was confiscated.
15:35 – The gates of the checkpoint were locked according to the new time and the soldiers left for the Tibeh Romena Checkpoint.
15:50 – Barta’a – Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
The parking lot was filled with cars parked and jostling around and it was hard to make our way through. Some people were attempting to earn a living selling soft drinks and snacks. The managers of the checkpoint forbid it. The Palestinian attendants did their bidding and told the two vendors to pack up their wares and leave. It was upsetting to see Palestinians in the service of the occupation.
One of the vendors asked for our help with a another matter – someone’s car had been impounded. The documents stated that the car could be freleased after paying a fine, but the car owner and his attorney don’t know where the car is. We asked Hannah Barag for her help. People also approached us about agricultural permits that had not been renewed. We referred them to the hotline for protection of the individual. We hoped that they would be able to help them.
16:30 – We made our way back to our car that was parked on the side of the road. Our trunk was checked at the vehicle inspection point but they did not ask for our ID cards.
'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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