'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tayba-Rummana, Tura-Shaked
Why do they open the checkpoint late? So that we’ll be able to sleep a little later (on the delayed opening of Tura – Shaked Checkpoint)
06:00 – 06:20 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint – The checkpoint is empty and the few people arriving enter immediately. Has the checkpoint management found a way to make crossing through the terminal more efficient? Maybe it is because of Passover, the closure, or the rain. At any rate, there is no sign of any line. Today is “good” but before we become too pleased let’s remember the tens of thousands of Palestinians here and in other places who perhaps tried but failed to convince the occupiers that they have a good reason to get a paper. People cannot cross to the seamline zone or to Israel, preventing them from earning a living or managing in other areas of their lives.
A young man who drove people in a car belonging to a relative told us that the Israeli police fined him NIS 1,000 near Bethlehem. He does not know what to do since it is a huge sum of money for him to pay. We explained that the sum is liable to increase rapidly and he should take care of the matter quickly. We told him how to contact Sylvia and Tami and were sad to note that Haya Afek is no longer on the list.
06:30 at A’anin Checkpoint, an agricultural checkpoint that also serves as a “fabric of life” checkpoint where people who are not farmers are also allowed to cross to the seamline zone. The checkpoint is also open to residents of A’anin as well. Most people are farmers and begin to cross to the seamline zone. We heard complaints about the soldiers who are checking people extremely meticulously. Perhaps these soldiers are new and are therefore working with exaggerated meticulousness.
Tura – Shaked “Fabric of Life” Checkpoint, 07:00 – There are few people but things are running slowly. Soon the school children who go to school in Tura will arrive and we will hear children’s voices.
08:00 – Tibeh Romena Agricultural Checkpoint – Here people who are not farmers – even elderly people and women are permitted to cross to places such as Um al Fahem. Almost everyone was permitted to cross except for a young woman carrying a baby who was sent back. The woman presented a permit to cross at Barta’a, which is not valid at this checkpoint. Instead of walking ten minutes to Um Al Fahem, she will have to drive and make a long detour to Barta’a Checkpoint and then continue on to Um Al Fahem.
'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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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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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