'Anin
The olive harvest begins!
On Saturday morning, Simhat Torah, M., a resident of Anin, in the district of Jenin, phoned me. He offered me and my family greetings on the holiday and asked if the checkpoint would be open the next day. Anin Checkpoint allows the farmers from the village of Anin to pass through to their lands, in this case, their olive orchards, which are trapped in the Seamline Zone. During the olive harvest, the checkpoint is supposed to be open every day; in other times the checkpoint is open only on Mondays and Wednesdays.
I was surprised, and asked, “and on Sunday?” M. answered that they say the harvest will begin tomorrow. I promised to find out. I called the District Coordinating Office (DCO) and a polite soldier answered that as yet they don’t know. They didn’t receive any instructions and there is no one to ask, because “the officers are at home.” She suggested that I call on Sunday morning. The suggestion didn’t seem logical to me; I was concerned that the farmers would lose one day of the harvest. In the meantime, Shuli turned to someone else in the DCO and requested an answer. She later received a response that the harvest would begin tomorrow, that the checkpoint would open in the morning, and that the residents of Anin know this. M. was happy and we wished him a successful season. It is important to note that the residents of Anin are very lucky that at least there are no aggressive settlements close to 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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