'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint12 people were already waiting for the soldiers to open the three gates to the checkpoint. Lately the gate facing the seamline zone has remained open. The soldiers arrived at exactly 15:15 – on time. There were no tractors today and no one was carrying anything across. Two women soldiers walked down to open the two gates on the side of the village that are not visible from the place where we stood. One of the soldiers stood in back of the concrete roadblock. The people crossed one after the other.
Tura–Shaked: “Fabric of Life” Checkpoint
This term implies that there are a lot of reasons for Palestinians to cross here. School children cross here to the village of Tura and students and teachers cross to the university in Jenin. Teachers and workers cross to the seamline zone to the industrial area near the three settlements nearby. This checkpoint is filled with equipment and facilities for regulating traffic: spikes on the road, stop lights, and an inspection facility and steel gate. But the most noticeable thing is the garbage container that is always overflowing and the surrounding garbage that hides the flowers.
The Main Checkpoint: Barta’a Reihan Many workers cross through this checkpoint to Barta’a from the West Bank. Until a few months ago thousands of construction workers who work in Israel building the city of Harish, but lately these numbers have decreased as people are forced to cross through at other checkpoints.
About two weeks ago we approached the managers of the checkpoint to ask them to build a shelter from the rain for people who are walking from the fenced-in passage to the parking lot. They promised to look into the matter and that it would be taken care of. The issue is still being looked into…. Soon the problem will no longer be the rain but the hot summer sun.
The parking lot is already emptying out but there has been a traffic jam along the road between the two small parking lots. We passed it but did not understand what was going on. Yaabed checkpoint was completely quiet. There might have been soldiers in the watchtower there.
We drove back to the parking lot at Barta’a and learned that the traffic jam had been caused by vehicles that were being inspected on the road to the west next to Hermesh. We will drive there when we are on our next shift.
'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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