‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05:50 – Barta’a Checkpoint
Entrance to the Checkpoint from the Palestinian Side: It appeared that the intense cold had a positive influence upon the speed at which people are checked. Workers who stood in a long line at the entrance entered and came out again after a short time. Our Palestinian friend A. reported to us that people entered about 30 at one time.
At the entrance on the seamline zone side crowds of Palestinians came up the sleeve and went to their transport and rides to work. Some hurry to the vehicles while others pause to warm up with a cup of coffee and cake at the kiosk. The first people we met who were the seamstresses who received us with broad smiles as usual.
There were six inspection points operating efficiently in the terminal. An armed security guard came up to us and asked us to leave, claiming that we could not stand there. He left and we remained where we were to continue observing. One of the Palestinians explained that people were crossing quickly despite the fact that the inspectors were more meticulous, and that some workers were therefore being detained in the inspection room for 20 minutes or longer. This is not an issue of permits, since they have valid permits. Another person asked us where we had been last Saturday when the line had moved slowly.
A. explained that his son had been injured at a construction site at the settlement of Tal Menasheh. He was injured in his thigh by a spike and was hospitalized in Hillel Yaffe Hospital [in Hadera]. The shelter that was put up in the upper parking lot was empty. Apparently people were being picked up for work quickly because of the cold.
06:35 – A’anin Checkpoint
We were surprised to see many Palestinians from A’anin waiting for rides at the junction about 200 meters from the checkpoint. Evidently the soldiers had opened the checkpoint ten minutes early this morning. Pedestrians and tractors were waiting together, as opposed to the usual order of pedestrians crossing first followed by tractors. People were in a good mood because the soldiers had been polite and accommodating. We left at 06:50 and the checkpoint was empty. The soldiers remained until the official closing time.
07:00 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened on time. A few pedestrians and vehicles are crossing. Two soldiers armed with weapons and communicators threw empty pizza boxes and a garbage can into the garbage container at the entrance to the checkpoint, which is overflowing and surrounded by litter.
We left at 07:20.
'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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