A’anin: The virus does not differentiate between Muslims and Jews
Neta Golan submitted an interesting telephone report
I called our friend M., a resident of the village of A’anin. M. asked immediately how I was and I asked about his family. Fortunately all of us are in good health.
I called in ord3er to learn whether the A’anin agricultural checkpoint was open on Monday and Wednesday mornings and afternoons as usual during the quarantine. M. reported that the checkpoint had not been opened on either day. No one wanted to leave home. M. reported: “Just like you, everyone is a afraid to go out. They only leave home if it is absolutely essential.”
I asked M. if he knows any construction workers who went to work in Israel for one or two months according to the regulations during the days of the Corona virus. M. Doesn’t know anyone, only people who are afraid to leave home. No one goes out unless they have to. We agreed that Corona does not differentiate between Israelis and Palestinians or between Jews, Muslims, or Christians. We expressed hope that our leaders would learn from the virus.
Unfortunately I don’t have the phone number of any of the many construction workers who work in Harish near the Barta’a checkpoint.
Luckily the Palestinians who live in the northwestern of the West Bank, there are no hostile settlers who uproot trees, burn orchards, or throw rocks.
'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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