‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:05 A'anin Agricultural CP
On our way to the CP a number of military jeeps are behind us, going in the same direction. At the CP there are soldiers and when the reinforcements arrive the passage begins. More than 150 people are waiting on the other side of the CP. We hear the voices from the distance, but do not see the inspection. The tempo of the passage is reasonable. Many tractors emerge with women and children. The people know the routine, know what is allowed and what is forbidden. They make the soldiers' work more efficient. Thus the soldiers can finish in time and go on to the next 'security' task …. The olive-picking is at its height. The crop is good this year, according to some, but still the authorities intend to bring it to an end within the next few days.
A man who has 120 dunams (more or less) of olives in the seamline zone has been asking for some time to go to work on his land through the Tura-Shaked CP which is open every day. Why does he have to struggle to get permission? Why does he hav to waste time and money and beg the authorities again and again, or to ask for help from two strange women? They do not allow him to do this. Until when?
07:10 Tura-Shaked CP
On the West Bank side dozens of people are waiting to go through to the seamline zone. Today, they opened the gate at 07:00. Not all of them knew that the CP would open an hour later and the soldiers claimed that they gave notice of the change to the village councils. Apparently they did not let the residents know. Who cares? Palestinian time is worth nothing. Pupils arrive, some of them on foot, some of them have rides. The younger girls are covered in kerchiefs.
07:35 Barta'a=Reihan CP
On the surface the occupation routine is considerate and courteous. ('Enlightened Occupation'). Loaded commercial vehicles are standing in a line on the road, waiting. Taxis arrive one by one and emit people who work in Barta'a and in other places. They cross the terminal and go out of the sleeve into their rides immediately. Above there are some who are waiting for some special rides.
08:00 We take a patient to the hospital in Haifa and end our shift.
'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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