‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan
Hannah H., Leah R. (Reporting). Marcia L., Translation
05:45 Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
In the Palestinian parking lot: There is a huge number of people hurrying to get to work. The double line is so long, it goesd across the road. Six inspection windows are operating inside the terminal. Hannah took a picture but a security guard came out and made sure that she erased the photo and stop photographing.
A man approached us and asked for help. He is an Israeli citizen; his wife does not have a permit to live in Israel and she lives in Jenin (west bank). In order to meet with her, he has to cross the Jalama checkpoint. He prefers to cross at the Barta’a checkpoint. We phone the DCO office ,which responded that it would not be possible for him (to cross at Barta’a).
06:30 Anin Checkpoint
Quiet. The checkpoint is closed. We phone the DCO office; there is no change in the opening times. They should open at 06:30. A white DCO van is parked inside the checkpoint, between the fences. Finally, the soldiers arrive at 07:00, as usual with no explanation. They open the gates immediately and the passage was fast. We counted 90 people, 8 children, and 8 tractors. four people were not permitted to pass through. Someone told us that the soldier said to one of them, “I don`t like your face.” Several women with small children passed through. Everyone smiles and says hello.
07:40 We leave.
08:00 At the request of the NGO The Road To Recovery/The Road To Peace, we are supposed to pick up a young woman who is traveling to Rambam Hospital for treatment, together with her father. They arrived late; the young woman was very pale. They told us that at Kalkilia checkpoint, they creaated problems for the two of them. The young woman and her father waited a long time to pass through.
'Anin checkpoint (214)
See all reports for this place-
'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.
-
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
See all reports for this place-
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).
-