‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Jalama, Tura-Shaked
13:50 Jalameh checkpoint
We took parents and their child, after an operation at Rambam Hospital, to the checkpoint. Agricultural workers were beginning to return from their work at this hour.
Construction in the checkpoint area. Apparently the parking lot is being enlarged.
14:40 Turah-Shaked checkpoint
Several mothers and children pass from the West Bank into the seamline zone, enter cars that collect them. The garbage container is still overflowing and garbage is scattered around it.
15:00 ‘Anin checkpoint
About 20 people and 5 tractors are waiting to pass – and who doesn’t arrive? The Army. Someone tells us that there is some action going on to find a lawyer to help make sure the daily opening of the checkpoint is on time and also to get an additional gate that would provide easier access to fields which are distant from the checkpoint.
Another person complains that his son has been denied an agricultural permit for two years now. We refer him to the Centre for the Defence of the Individual. At 15:10 We phoned the District Coordination Office to ask why soldiers had not arrived. At 15:20 we were told that soldiers were on their way and that ”they have other things to do.”
15:30 The soldier tells us that there are new soldiers who don’t know the procedures. They arrived at 15:40. They are new. Their weapons are drawn. They open the first and middle gates. The locals remind them to open the third, bottom, one.
Passage is quick. A Palestinian with two donkeys stand next to the shed. The soldiers want us to ask the man why he doesn’t go through. He is from the tents at the foot of the checkpoint.
The soldiers wait. They know that someone else is coming. At 4 o’clock he arrives with his tractor and passes through.
16:10 Barta’a-Reihan checkpoint, seamline zone side.
Crowds of workers return from work at this hour. Most work in Israel and do not need to to have their permits checked. Two positions are open for those who need to have their permits stamped.
Few pass into the seamline zone.
Two young women wait for their friend. They are from West Barta’a, and have Israeli identity cards. Their friend is from East Barta’a, with a Palestinian identity card, married to a man from Jenin, where she lives. She needs a permit to visit her family at her birthplace. Her permit has expired and at present she doesn’t pass.
16:30 – we do not wait to see if she crosses and leave the checkpoint. Lots of workers are still arriving. Three children run to the slide next to the Israeli parking lot and slide once or twice before being called to the family car. One man complains about the crowded conditions on the Palestinian side. He is right.
'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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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.
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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)
Ruti TuvalMar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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