‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint 06:00
The upper parking lot is filled with cars and workers waiting for their rides. There is a very long line of people waiting to enter the terminal from the Palestinian parking lot, and about 35 people enter every three or four minutes. We go down to the terminal through the sleeve and meet workers who are drinking coffee and others who are hurrying towards the cars. There are four windows operating inside the terminal and people are coming out quickly. There is a lot of military traffic on the roads of large and small vehicles. We heard that homes had been demolished in Kabatia.
A'anin Checkpoint, 06:30
The checkpoint is closed and there is no one in sight. We hear people's voices from the wadi (valley). At 06:45 we called the Liaison and Coordination Administration. We were told that they know about the problem and that they were looking for the military police, who would come immediately. At 07:00 a vehicle from the Liaison and Coordination Administration arrived with three soldiers. They opened the gate and the checkpoint began operating at 07:10.
Five tractors and 85 people cross the checkpoint and greet us with "Good morning" as they pass.
07:40– Seven Bedouin children from the wadi (valley) got into the bus that takes them to school.
By 07:50 everyone had crossed and the checkpoint closed.
'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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