'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
It is a rainy morning and fewer workers are going to work
06:25 – A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint
A herd of cows was grazing in the olive grove next to the checkpoint. A military police jeep was standing by and the policemen were standing under the awning. Crossing had not yet begun.
At 06:30 people began to cross. The first young man was sent back to the village. We were told that he had a work permit but did not have his I.D. We asked several people if they had heard the rumor that soon they would be able to cross every day. They had not heard and said they would ask the mayor of the village.
One of the people came to us and angrily reported that the soldiers had stopped him, opened his wallet, and asked why he had so much money with him. Another man was stopped because he had a counterfeit permit or ID.
About 30 people and four tractors crossed, and another young man was sent to stand to the side and wait.
At 07:00 the checkpoint closed. The soldiers spoke on the phone and wondered what to do with the detainees. We stayed and waited. We saw that the documents were returned to the first detainee. The soldiers blindfolded him and put him into their jeep. We did not see if they tied his hands, but we saw no signs of violence.
At 07:10 the soldiers were still present talking on the phone. They released the second detainee. A vehicle from the Liaison and Coordination Administration arrived and the detainee got in. The vehicle left and the soldiers closed the checkpoint.
07:30 – Tura – Shaked “Fabric of Life” Checkpoint
Workers, farmers, teachers, and schoolchildren were crossing in both directions. The checkpoint opened at 06:45 instead of at 06:30 because of problems with the computer. A military police jeep and a vehicle from the Liaison and Coordination Administration entered the checkpoint. The younger school children had already crossed and a group of older children crossed. Several cars crossed in both directions. Several workers who had already crossed were waiting for the rides to work at the Shaked Industrial Zone.
One of the farmers reported that in Tura many of the work permits had been cancelled because there were supposedly too many permits in relation to the size of the fields. The village mayor is dealing with the matter.
07:50 – Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint
A few workers were waiting for rides and a few drivers were waiting for passengers. The crossing procedures today were conducted in a reasonable and quick manner. There were few workers crossing today because of the rain.
'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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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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