Aanin checkpoint: biblical landscapes
06:10 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
At the junction and in the northern parking lot (the Seamline Zone), there are a great many cars and workers. There are also many workers going up the sleeve (the enclosed passage to the terminal), most of whom arrive from north of the separation fence. Their faces can’t hide the state of security tension in the area; they hurry to work. We parked in the Palestinian parking lot. We found a good place to park, one that won’t be blocked during our short visit here. We stood next to the coffee seller who sells his merchandise on top of a cardboard carton at the entrance to the enclosure (terminal). The buffet in the red caravan is only open at nine and we were requested not to express an opinion on the matter. Therefore, we note this as a fact, and those who understand, will understand. Two people approached us and said that in their youth, they were in prison here and there, but today they are heads of families, fathers to children and they only want an income and peace and obviously, permits to pass through to at least the Seamline Zone. In the meantime, the enclosure fills up and empties in shorter surges than in the past. At times crowding is created at the entrance to the terminal but it disperses quickly. We stop next to a private parking lot opposite Zabde. The cost of parking for the day is NIS 10. Those who want to save spending NIS10 park on the side of the road. There are no warnings against parking here. After we heard from drivers that the passage at Ya’bed Checkpoint flows without delays, we hurried to Tura Checkpoint.
07:00 Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
The sleeve for pedestrians is opened at 07:03. A car driven by a young woman with four young children sitting in the back, waits for a while opposite the red traffic light until she is allowed to pass. Opposite, an Israeli bus that arrived from the security fence, — Galili Travel—finds it difficult to maneuver the narrow turn at the checkpoint. Female teachers pass through in the direction of Daher al Malec and students (boys and girls) in the direction of Tura. The new bench that our friends saw during the afternoon shift, wasn’t there in the morning . . .
Opposite Daher al Malec we stopped next to a man who wore short pants, a cap, and earphones; a strange vision in a place like this. It turned out that he was from Umm al Fahm but did not arrive here by foot; he left his car not far from here.
07:50 – Anin Checkpoint
We popped over to Anin Checkpoint to see what was happening there. It looked deserted at first although the soldiers’ station is being equipped with a large water tank, a large “frog” for trash, and a new pole on which a large Israeli flag waved. As we were ready to leave, three soldiers came out from their hiding place and asked if we lost our way and what did we photograph. “We are artists who photograph biblical scenes,” we reassured them.
'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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