‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:00 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
There are many workers and many cars that came to pick them up, filling the upper parking lot on the side of the seamline zone. An unending stream of workers continue to come up from the terminal and leave the checkpoint. In the lower parking lot, from which people enter the terminal, there is still a long line.
06:15 – We counted a group of 110 workers that passed through the turnstile at one time. The line lengthens and shortens alternately.
06:30 – The front parking lot is full but in the area behind the shed there is enough space. At least 10 loaded trucks wait for passage through, that will begin at 08:00.
06:35 – Anin Checkpoint
The checkpoint is opened on time. People are already leaving it, most of them are farmers heading for the olive harvest. At the beginning, many young people passed through and only after them, older women and men. Seven tractors also passed
through, with women on wagons.
We tried to identify the woman who complained yesterday that her son did not receive a permit and therefore could not help with the harvest. We were not successful in finding her.
07:15 – The last Palestinians passed through and the soldiers began to close the checkpoint despite the fact that they are supposed to remain there until 07:30.
07:20 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened with a 10-minute delay, at 06:40. As yet there are many workers waiting to pass through and there is much anger. We are surrounded by small school children and when they enter the checkpoint we see that the soldiers send them to the inspection booth. Two female teachers who also leave say that they were sent to be inspected. Is this a new regulation as of today? The soldiers refuse to speak with us and we call the Liaison and Coordination Office to find out. The workers who leave also complained that checking the children at the booth delays the workers who are rushing to work.
At the Liaison and Coordination Office, they confirm that from today they are also inspecting children because a month ago, at this checkpoint, a military policeman was stabbed by a 12-year-old girl. Therefore, they are making the regulations more strict. I said that now 7- 8 year-olds were sent for inspection and the female soldier at the Office said that she would look into this.
Several cars pass to the seamline zone from the West Bank along with people with new containers of olive oil.
A young man turned to us (for help). After a work-related accident, he was referred to Kfar Kara for physiotherapy, but he is not able to get a permit to go. Ruthie gave him Tammy’s telephone, and perhaps she can help.
07:50 – A number of people are waiting for rides outside; the passage at the checkpoint ends.
'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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