A'anin checkpoint: "Why aren't they opened on the other days?"
06:00–07:45
6:00 Barta’a checkpoint: The upper parking lot and the roads around it are teeming with vehicles picking up the thousands of workers coming up through the long sleeve. A few of them are praying in the huts, a few are drinking coffee in the kiosk, but most of them are hurrying to work. Both turnstiles at the exit from the terminal are going round and round nonstop to let the workers out.
At 6:30 you can feel a let-up in the congestion but large numbers of workers are still coming through. At this time of the morning, workers are also returning to the West Bank from nightshifts in the Shahak industrial park near Tal Menashe.
A’nin agricultural checkpoint: This is considered an agricultural checkpoint and is therefore opened only twice a week, although most of the people who’ve been crossing over recently (residents of A’nin) are going to other jobs and during the rest of the week, they have to make a detour and drive to the Barta’a checkpoint in order to get to work. At 6:45, lots of people have already gathered on the other side of the barrier, but the solders open it only at 6:55. Three tractors cross first and then pedestrians enter the checkpoint area one-by-one. Beside the gate, two solders check the workers’ backpacks and a third checks their permits. Around 130 people pass without a hitch and the question remains: “Why don’t they open the barrier every day?”
On August 17, we reported that one of the residents of A’nin had had his permit for Barta’a checkpoint revoked, while the District Coordination and Liaison unit claimed the permit was valid. It transpired that the resident’s son had parked the car registered in his name somewhere where it was not permitted next to the Barta’a checkpoint and the commander of Barta’a checkpoint had personally and permanently denied him entry.
7:30 Tura-Shaked checkpoint. Around 30 workers and four women cross from the West Bank into the Seamline Zone. Some of them get into cars and go off to work. Some walk towards the village of Daher el Maleh. The school year has begun and junior high school girls cross from the Seamline Zone towards their school in Ya’bed. Palestinian cars with passengers cross over in both directions.
'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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