Hermesh checkpoint: A sparkling new road leads to the settlement
14:50 – Anin Checkpoint
The checkpoint is still not open since the general closure due to the Corona virus outbreak. The gate in the direction of the Seamline Zone is open. To our surprise, unlike in the past weeks, there are no soldiers in the place. Perhaps this is a good sign for the expected opening of the checkpoint next week.
15:00 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
Quiet. Traffic is slow in both directions. A young person crosses over to the Seamline Zone on the automobile path, accompanied by a donkey. Two women pass on the pedestrian path. A venerable older person accepts with a blessing, an offer from us for a ride. The man is a resident of Hirbat al Ra’adiya. He says that only residents of his tiny village and residents of Daher al Malec and Umm Reihan are allowed to pass and return through this checkpoint to Area A in the West Bank. Workers in the nearby industrial area, Shahak, have to pass through the distant Barta’a Checkpoint.
We pass by Barta’a Checkpoint. The large parking lot on the Palestinian side is packed full; the other two private lots above the road are also almost full.
15:20 – Harmish Checkpoint
We are impressed with the shiny new road. The checkpoint, as usual, is not manned. From this point on, the road is not shiny, and does not lead to the settlements.
15:30 – Yabed-Dotan Checkpoint
An army vehicle is parked in the area of the checkpoint. Cars travel in two directions, without any delay. Only cement blocks cause a slowdown.
15:50 – The parking lots on the Palestinian side of Barta’a Checkpoint are still full. Four loaded trucks are parked in the vehicle area. Many people arrive from work in Israel and go down the screened-in sleeve (the enclosed pathway to and from the checkpoint) to the Palestinian side.
This time we avoid the crowding in the parking lot and observe for a while, what is happening from the side.
'Anin checkpoint (214)
See all reports for this place-
'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.
-
Hermesh
See all reports for this place-
Hermesh
-
Tura-Shaked
See all reports for this place-
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
-
Ya'bed-Dotan
See all reports for this place-
Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
-