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‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Jalama, Tura-Shaked

Observers: Tzafrira Zamir, Neta Golan (reporting). Translation: Bracha Ben-Avraham
Sep-03-2015
| Afternoon
 
14:15 – Jalameh Checkpoint
We brought a baby girl to the checkpoint from Rambam Hospital in Haifa, together with her father and grandmother.  At this hour there is practically no one going to the West Bank and Palestinians cannot enter Israel.
 
15:00 – A'anin Checkpoint
Four tractors loaded with various odds and ends, and five pedestrians, are waiting in front of the locked gate.  The soldiers are a bit late.   They arrive and open the checkpoint.  Another tractor and two pedestrians arrive.  
 
By 15:15 everyone has crossed.  The soldiers have to wait until 15:30 when the checkpoint is due to close, but we do not. 
 
15:25 – Shaked –Tura Checkpoint
Traffic is light through the checkpoint at this hour.  People cross quickly.  A family crosses with a baby in a stroller and a man crosses riding a donkey.  
 
15:50 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
A bus from the Central Company for Development of Samaria is parked at the bus terminal.  The sign on the side of the bus reads: "Violence is not my way" and in smaller letters: "City with no violence in Samaria."  As if the city's very existence in occupied territory of Samaria is not a blatant example of violence. 
 
Hundreds of workers are returning from work.  Those who work in Israel return without delay. Those who work in the seamline zone go to the inspection booths. Two are operating and occasionally a line forms, which disappears quickly.  Several well-dressed women and their children cross to the West Bank.   Others cross to the seamline zone.  A ten-year-old girl crosses to the seamline zone with two toddlers, unaccompanied by an adult.   She looks like she is accustomed to doing this and to being a little mother. 
 
16:20 – We left the checkpoint, which was "operating smoothly."  Workers continue to arrive and cross the checkpoint on their way home.

  • '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.

  • 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).

  • Jalama

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    • North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
  • 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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      Ruti Tuval
      Mar-21-2022
      Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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