'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tayba-Rummana
Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint 5:45
In the upper car park, workers are being picked up by vehicles which transport them to their workplaces. As we descend down the sleeve, we meet workers holding cups of coffee going up, but no one is entering the terminal. The terminal is quiet and there are five active checking posts.
As we leave at 6:15 we notice that everyone arriving at the checkpoint enters immediately. Apparently, there is no pressure in the mornings now. One of the people tells us that lately, problems have arisen at the Jalameh checkpoint. We hear about an elderly man who in fact needs no passage permit, but has been informed that he is prevented from crossing.
Changes in the upper car park – more latrines have been installed, and a shed.
‘Aneen Checkpoint 6:30
The soldiers arrive and carry out an assault simulation. The checkpoint is opened only at 6:45, people enter for inspection in groups of five. In total, 95 people have crossed and two tractors. Five persons were turned back by the “fashion police” since they were dressed too nicely (all of them carrying bags or a backpack with changes of work clothes…). We are told that lately a Druze soldier has been put in charge and he treats them badly.
Tayibe-Roumana Checkpoint 7:25
We arrive, as do the soldiers, but the checkpoint does not open. About ten men and a tractor wait in front. At exactly 7:45 the soldiers come out of their vehicle and open the checkpoint’s three gates. The soldiers return to the inspection shed and the workers follow behind. The workers stop only at the third gate, close to the shed. From there they enter in groups of five, for inspection. All in all 14 persons pass and a tractor. They complain – why doesn’t this checkpoint open all year round? One of them tells us that before the checkpoint boss had been replaced he used to cross in his wagon, but now he is forbidden to do so because “it is not agricultural equipment”.
'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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