Northern checkpoints: A farmer was not allowed to cross at A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint because he was wearing nice clothes.
Barta’a – Reihan Checkpoint
This is the largest of the northern checkpoints in the northwest area of the West Bank. The checkpoint is operated by a civilian security company under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. The checkpoint allows workers to cross into Israel and the seamline zone in the Barta’a area and cargo to be brought across from the West Bank. Some of the people can cross into Israel in the morning and return to the West Bank in the afternoon, while others must cross at Irtach in the morning and can return here in the afternoon. Since many people are no longer allowed to cross here in the morning fewer people now cross here, and the number each day is about two thousand.
When we arrived here at 05:50 we saw that there were fewer people and only four inspection windows were operating. We also saw very few new construction sites in the town of Harish. There was no waiting line and the checkpoint was not crowded since workers would arrive a bit later, and we left at 06:20.
A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint – This checkpoint is only open two days a week in the morning and afternoon. Farmers from A’anin cross to tend their fields on the other side of the separation fence who have permits. People over age 55 are allowed to cross without any special permits.
We arrived at 06:30 and the soldiers were already there. Crossing began at 06:35 and 34 people and two tractors crossed.
One of the people crossing was detained and was not permitted to cross. His friends told us that he was told by the soldiers that he was not dressed appropriately for agricultural work. By 06:50 everyone had crossed.
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint – This is a “Fabric of Life” checkpoint where children cross to go to school in Tura (West Bank) and students cross to go to the university in Jenin. Today the school children are on a two-week vacation.
The checkpoint is supposed to open at 06:30, but today the soldiers only opened it at 06:50. 7 cars crossed to the seamline zone , 3 crossed to the West Bank and about 20 people walked across to the seamline zone.
'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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