‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Marcia L., Translation
Barta’a- Reihan Checkpoint- 05:25
In the upper parking lot, there are many taxis and people. Many sit on the sides of the road and wait for transportation to work. In the lower parking lot, the waiting area for trucks and vans with merchandise is full. A number of the vans wait in the regular parking area which as yet is not full. At this hour there still isn’t a heavy line to the entrance to the terminal.
05:30 – They activate the second turnstile which, in general, allows women and those going to the West Bank, to pass through. From time to time we hear over the loudspeaker, a security guard who is unseen, saying in basic Hebrew and in a relaxed tone: “One by one, slowly, slowly. Thank you. Good morning.” Further instructions we don’t understand.
05:50 – The line begins to lengthen and fill out. Two young men watch over the order of those entering the turnstiles and prevent pushing. According to the coffee vendor, yesterday (Sunday, 29.05.16), they also activated two turnstiles, which allowed more people to enter the terminal at the same time.
They told us that there were no soldiers at Ya’bed this morning.
A young man told us that they did not allow him to pass through today and before he could identify himself, he was told to go back. He will try a second time to pass through tomorrow; if he has a problem, he will turn to us for help.
06:15 – We left so that we would arrive in time for the Anin Checkpoint. The parking lot was already full and the line alternately got longer and shorter.
Anin Checkpoint 214 – 06:25 – Again a delay in the opening of the gate to the checkpoint!!
At the checkpoint, there are 3 gates: the eastern one which is close to the Seamline Zone; the central and the lower one which is close to the village. The eastern gate was open, and people entered there. We arrived at the middle, yellow gate, which was closed; the Palestinians waited beyond the lower gate in the direction of Anin village.
06:45 – A quarter of an hour delay. A second phone call to the District Command Office (DCO) and again they don’t answer. Suddenly a jeep appears. A soldier tells us that there was a penetration of the fence (no less!!). In all the rush, so he says, he even left the gate open there (through which we are able to enter). And then there is an additional penetration and it is not him who lets people through; he is busy chasing them. After him, a Toyota van with antennas arrives. A soldier who got down from the van said they heard from the walkie-talkie that “there are two young women who worry about the Palestinians . . .” He requested that we leave the place because immediately a force will arrive to create order.”
We left the checkpoint square. The soldier locked the gate and traveled eastward. The Palestinians and we wait for the checkpoint to open again.
Until 07:15 we tried three times to reach the DCO by phone but with no luck. Later, a man from Anin reported by telephone that the checkpoint was open at 07:30. They didn’t explain to them the reason for the late hour.
Shaked Checkpoint – 07:25
At this hour there aren’t a lot of people here. The checkpoint was opened at 06:30/ We learned that summer vacation already began for schools.
07:40 – We left.
'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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