Aanin checkpoint: the harvest was stopped for one day
16.30 – 15.10
Barta’a Checkpoint 15:10 – The checkpoint was relatively quiet and only a few workers were returning from work in Israel and in the seamline zone. It appeared that the activities at the checkpoint were routine despite the difficult incidents in Nablus and Jenin. The parking lot beneath the village of Zibda, the Palestinian village opposite the checkpoint, was functioning again after parking had not been permitted for some time. The seamstresses were returning to the West Bank carrying shopping bags. Residents of Barta’a and the seamline zone were also returning from the West Bank carrying packages. An Israeli bus arrived to take waiters to a wedding in one of the cities in Eron Valley. At 15:30 many workers arrived and began to return to the West Bank. There was a noticeable presence of police on the roads.
A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint – The olive harvest has begun and the checkpoint is therefore open every day. Yesterday it was closed because of security incidents and the farmers returned home. The checkpoint opened today at 06:30. We arrived at 15:45. Five tractors and about 100 people were waiting for the checkpoint to open. Some sat in the shade under the olive trees and others sat on their tractors that were loaded with sacks of olives and junk, but most gathered near the entrance gate. There were many women who had been working in the olive harvest. The checkpoint also opened today at 11:00 because many people returned home in the middle of the workday because of the rain.
The checkpoint opened at 16:00. A tractor and its passengers crossed. An army bus and small truck arrived at that point with soldiers who attempted to cross to the seamline zone, but the gate was crowded with people who were waiting. A large commotion and shouting soon began, evidence of the extreme tension.
One of the workers collected all the pedestrians’ ID cards and stood at the entrance next to the soldiers who were in charge when the checkpoint opened. He called people’s names one by one and crossing proceeded quickly and efficiently.
By 16:15 everyone had crossed, but more tractors and people continued to arrive. The checkpoint remained open until 16:30.
It is also possible to store olive oil next to the grocery store at Um A Reihan, a Palestinian village in 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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