‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tayba-Rummana
Anin Agricultural Checkpoint, 15:00
All those returning to Anin are riding on a few tractors, some of them pulling wagons loaded with scrap of different sorts, which they will sell for recycling. The soldiers do not check their documents or their scrap and therefore it looks strange, and perhaps typical for the afternoon, that all the tractors move in a convoy past the exit from the checkpoint to the descent and disappear from view.
The checkpoint is operated by a unit of Bedouins who have returned from army exercises in the South. Soldiers of this unit don’t search the Palestinians and according to most, they are allowed to pass quickly without delays. We spoke with one of them, A., a resident of the Galilee, and again we saw the great frustrating gap between what we know and think and what the soldiers know and think.
Barta’a Checkpoint, 15:30
Heavy traffic but not crowded. Palestinians return home to the West Bank after a day’s work in Israel and the seamline zone, most decisively young. Everyone passes through the carousel on the side, on the path that surrounds the terminal. Those who worked in Israel are not delayed and those who worked in the seamline zone approach the machine that examines their permits.
Tayibe-Rumana Agricultural Checkpoint, 16:00
About 20 people, including a woman and a child, wait patiently for the opening of the gates to the checkpoint. They say that sometimes they are late in opening and sometimes not. Border Policemen operate this checkpoint; they are already here and finally everyone passes through in five minutes, without checking documents. Once they were diligent about registering those returning to the villages in order to catch those who leave in the morning but don’t return 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.
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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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Tayba-Rummana
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Tayba-Rummana is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence. The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening. During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530). (February 2020).
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