‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05.45. Barta’a- Reihan checkpoint. Many people and vehicles fill the upper car-park next to the seam-line. Many continue to arrive from the terminal, including the seamstresses who work in Barta’a, with whom we are friendly. The Palestinian car-park is already full of vehicles; those at the top of the road to Zabeda are still empty, as are the improvised car-parks. To our surprise the queue is not long today, although people enter the terminal in relatively small groups, 25-55 people each time. Among the many men, is one woman with a baby.
Among the trucks and tenders waiting for checking is one loaded with sheep, perhaps in preparation for Eid il-Adha. We followed one young man and saw that it took him 10 minutes between his arrivals in the line until his exit from the terminal.
A Palestinian acquaintance insisted on giving us oil, cucumbers and olives in bottles and afterwards we were sent to the car-checking shed, stressing that they would check only the bottles – and indeed this is what happened.[?]
06.30. A’anin checkpoint. The soldiers were early and opened on time. 54 men passed two children and three tractors. Three people were not allowed to pass – we do not know why. Tami photographed the faded flag. The soldiers said it was forbidden to photograph and could not be persuaded otherwise. But when they saw we had photographed only the flag and not ‘our forces,’ they were convinced.
07.10. Turah-Shaked checkpoint. Nursery school children and primary school pupils pass from the seam-line zone to Turah that is across the fence. Tami says,’checkpoint children.’ Some try to talk to us – a shame we do not know Arabic. Others, the majority, do not like us at all – they have cause. One little girl who arrived alone, was afraid of us.
At about 7.15, movement begins from the W. Bank to the seam-line zone. Women wait in the shed for vehicles that are held up for checking. They are seamstresses who work in the Shaha”k industrial area. One man tells us that today is a good day, that holders of 00 permits (for over-54’s) passed without checking. Another says that because of a fault in the generator they opened the station late and the checking was slow. He says that even the passage to the W.Bank sometimes takes 25 minutes.
07.30. A horse and cart pass. On the other side remain a few people who want to pass to the seam-line zone. We leave.
'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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