‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
We and the soldiers arrived early. At 6.30 passage begins and the first people are already going through. Also the D.C.O. vehicle arrives. Men and women are coming for the olive harvest, some equipped with the necessary sticks, rakes and sacks.
A Palestinian car arrives at the checkpoint from the seamline zone. The driver is an A’anin inhabitant and he has a permit to cross in a car at Barta’a checkpoint. He tells us that the journey in the seamline zone costs (in an improvised taxi) 10 shekels; from A’anin centre to this checkpoint 2 shekels, and from the checkpoint to A’anin 5 shekels. A man found with a stick returns frustrated. They didn’t let his 15 yearj-old nephew to pass. The brother himself is ill and cannot go to work. The youth does not yet have an identity card or permit, but his uncle has his birth certificate and written permission from his father. After a few minutes the uncle and nephew told us that a telephone call from the soldiers to the D.C.O. solved the problem.
A tractor driver complained, not for the first time that his wife has no permit. She has to come to the D.C.O. at Salem, but she cannot travel there alone and her husband and son do not have time to take her. A trap.
07.00. All have passed. They lock the gates. Someone says that 100 people passed – we did not count. Some ask us if , in our opinion, there will be rain today.
07.10. Tura-Shaked checkpoint.
A group of pupils arrive and all have to enter the hut for checking.One of the workers says that usually pupils pass without checking. We do not know why today is different and the soldiers don’t tell us. Children of the single [isolated? house arrive, and they, too, have to walk around and enter for checking. A little girl, who arrives alone, struggles with the heavy door of the hut.
07.40. Barta’a-Reihan checkpoint.
A few people are waiting the seamline-side for transport. Cars are waiting to transport people working in Barta’a, who will soon be arriving. In the Palestinian parking-lot, three guards and a parking attendant (with a set of 5-shekel parking tickets) are arranging things. The parking lot is already full; the additional parking lots at the top of the road, not yet. People arrive in small groups and go directly to the terminal.
Seven heavily loaded trucks enter for checking. 10 minutes before the time! 7.50.
08.00. We leave for home. The answer to the question of the A’anin farmers about weather, soon comes: a deluge in Wadi Arra. A call to our acquaintance M. tells us that in A’anin the rain was not strong there. But many took advantage of the noon opening of the checkpoint during the olive harvest (12.00-13.00) and returned home early.
'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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