'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
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Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint, 06:00
Ramadan Kareem! [It is the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan when people fast from sunup until sundown.] The upper parking lot was not as full with workers as usual, and fewer workers were coming out of the terminal than on a regular day. No one was carrying lunchboxes and of course no one was drinking or purchasing coffee. The month of the fast of Ramadan has begun. The few people who arrived at the checkpoint entered immediately. Only four inspection windows were operating in the terminal. When we asked why so few people had arrived today we were told that Jalameh Checkpoint, where people enter Israel, had been closed, and people who usually enter through Barta’a had assumed that this checkpoint would be closed as well and did not come. When we called the Liaison and Coordination Administration we were told that Jalameh was open as usual. Either people did not receive clear explanations, or the rumor mill was hard at work.
A’anin Checkpoint 06:35 – The checkpoint was already open. 23 people, including three children, and three tractors crossed. The soldiers sent two people home because their permits had expired. A third person was sent home who had a valid permit but he was told to go to the Liaison and Coordination Administration and speak with them. (?) One person told us that anyone crossing through A’anin in the morning and returning through Barta’a would have his right to cross at A’anin revoked the next time. While we were talking we were told to go back to the checkpoint and the soldiers photographed his permit. When they locked the gates we asked the soldiers why he had been called back. They explained that he was wearing jeans, not work clothes. The fashion police are at work again, but why did they photograph his permit?
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint 07:10 – The checkpoint was open. There was a small crowd of people next to the turnstile and the people who were crossing to the seamline zone told us that the checkpoint had opened a half an hour late. 12 cars crossed quickly. The children are already on vacation.
M. from the seamline zone was waiting for two workers in his tobacco field. He told us that the tobacco leaves had to be gathered into bundles immediately after being picked, if not they cannot be used. He explained that every year there are problems in processing the tobacco and sending the fresh leaves to be dried and processed by their many relatives in the West Bank. They are required to make arrangements for sending the bundles of leaves, which makes it difficult for them to process them. Only one car at a time is permitted to cross with the leaves.
Hiring people from the seamline zone is extremely expensive, and hiring people from the West Bank is difficult because they are not given permits. Agricultural permits are only given to people who own land, and even those are limited.
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'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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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