'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05:50 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
The upper parking lot leading to Israel was filled with workers who were waiting for employers and contractors to take them to work. There were also private cars that were picking up workers.
We drove down to the lower parking lot to the entrance to the inspection facility. We could see a lot of people making their way up the fenced-in sleeve going out. About 12 loaded trucks are waiting to enter the vehicle inspection facility. They were no longer waiting on the road or at the entrance to the large parking lot as they had in the past.
06:05 – The parking lot was not full and people were not waiting in line. Everyone was going inside. We were told that workers come earlier because of Ramadan.
We spoke to A. who runs his work by phone to his two sons who work with him since he cannot cross the checkpoint because he has been banned by the security services. We talked about the situation, about the farmers who are being prevented from working their land and workers who cannot get to work. We told him about the March of the Green Line. We said goodbye and planned to meet again at the same place.
06:25 – There was no one in line and people were still arriving. People were still waiting in the upper parking lot for their rides to work.
06:13 – A’anin Checkpoint
The gates were open and an armed soldier was waiting facing in the direction from which the Palestinians would come.
06:45 – The first people began to come out, among them many young people. Two families dressed in holiday clothes carrying packages told us that they were on their way to visit family in the Bedouin village of Emricha on the road to Jenin to celebrate Ramadan. Four tractors crossed. About 60 people crossed the checkpoint. One person was sent back because his permit had expired.
07:10 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint was open but no one was there. Evidently the checkpoint had opened at 06:00 and everyone had managed to cross.
There were no students and no one was waiting for rides. Two shiny cars crossed the checkpoint from the Palestinian side. A person told us that there is now a good commander in charge and people cross quickly, but before there had been a commander who took a half hour to pray and only then let people pass.
We left at 07:25.
06.25 אין תור, בודדים מגיעים. בחניון העליון רבים עדיין ממתינים להסעות שלהם לעבודה.
06.33 מחסום עאנין
השערים פתוחים, חייל עם נשק שלוף עומד ופניו לכיוון שממנו יגיעו הפלסטינים.
6.45 הראשונים יוצאים. הרבה צעירים. ממהרים במעלה הכביש.
שתי משפחות עם ילדים, כולם לבושים באופן חגיגי וחבילות בידיהם, מספרים לנו שהולכים לבקר קרובים שלהם בכפר הבדואי אמריחה, על הכביש לג’נין, לכבוד הרמדאן.
4 טרקטורים עברו. בס”ה עברו כ60- אנשים. אחד נשלח בחזרה כי פג תוקף האישור שלו.
07.10 מחסום טורה שקד
המחסום פתוח אבל אין נפש חיה. מסתבר שהמחסום נפתח ב 06.30 וכולם כבר הספיקו לעבור.
אין תלמידים ואין ממתינים להסעה.
שתי מכוניות יפות ומצוחצחות עוברות את המחסום מהצד הפלסטיני.
אדם אחד עובר ומספר לנו “שעכשיו יש מפקד טוב והחיילים עובדים מהר, אבל קודם היה מפקד שהיה קודם כל מתפלל חצי שעה ורק אחר כך מתחילים לעבור…”
07.25 עוזבות.
'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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