עאנין, ריחן, שקד, יום ג’ 18.10.11, בוקר
05:50 A'anin CP
The gates of the CP opened at 05:30. When we arrived, there were people coming out and walking on the road that leads from the CP to their olive groves. They tell us that more than a hundred people are waiting, that the passage is 'OK', but a little slow. The inspection is being carried out on the northern road going down, beyond the middle gate, and we cannot see those being inspected or those waiting. People complain that they received permits for only a month and still haven't received extensions. They also complain that additional members of the family – young and healthy – have not received permits. An older woman, a widow and mother of three, tries to pick olives. It is very difficult for her; she can barely bend over. Not one of her children received a permit. We give her the telephone number of the Center for the Protection of Individuals, and hope that they will succeed in helping her.
There does not seem to be a great deal of excitement here about the release of Palestinian prisoners today (in the deal for Gilad Shalit). There is no one from A'anin, but they tell us that there is one from Nazlat Sheikh Zaid nearby.
06:40 The children of the Bedoui family that lives at the foot of the CP arrive. They are waiting for a ride to Umm Reihan. We pick up a young veterinary, a resident of A'anin who studied in Turkey. He says that he has opened a clinic there, works six days a week caring for all the animals, from horses to chickens.
06:55 Shaked-Tura CP
There is no queue near the turnstiles; only a few are going through; a herd of goats has already passed. During the olive-picking season, they open at 06:00 and the farmers go through early. The children from 'the solitary house' arrive and go through to school in Tura. More than 20 young students arrive in a vehicle and go up to the military policewoman who looks briefly into their schoolbags. The driver reports to us that in a short while Gilad Shalit will be released and so will the Palestinian prisoners. He hopes that the deal will advance peace. A few teachers go through in both directions. There is no queue and therefore the teachers are not exempt from entering the inspection pavilion.
07:40 Reihan-Barta'a CP
In our car, we go down to the Palestinian parking lot on the lane kept for Israelis. On the parallel lane a Palestinian taxi and its passengers are being inspected. We are embarrassed. The parking lot is filling up. People arrive and enter the terminal in fives. There are almost no people going through to the West Bank.
08:05 Five private cars are waiting for inspection on their way to the seamline zone. Four loaded pickup trucks are waiting behind them. We leave the CP
'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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