‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
14:50 Anin
We arrive a little early. The soldiers are on time. Two tractor drivers and two pedestrians pass through the checkpoint. One of the tractor drivers says that permits are not being renewed. His permit will expire next month, so he is worried. He tells us about his two brothers; one is an engineer who got his Master's degree in Paris and has an office in Jenin: the other studied psychology at Birzeit University and works as an inspector for the Interior Ministry of the Palestinian Authorities. His son is studying engineering in Cairo. He himself was sent to study in Amman but didn't complete his studies.
A young Bedouin, who lives in a small village at the foot of the checkpoint, is not permitted to enter Anin. His permit as a permanent resident in the seam line zone enables him to pass the checkpoints at Tura and Barta'a but not at Anin. In order to visit his family in Anin (it's ten minutes between his home and theirs) he will have to make a long detour and pay the cost of the ride. The soldiers at the checkpoint are polite and the army policewoman explains to us that he does not show on her computer, which is not connected to the one at Tura. So that's what happens when computers don't communicate.
15:30 Tura Shaked
Only one car goes through the checkpoint while we are there.
16:00 Barta'a Riehan
Laborers with permits to enter Israel pass through to the West Bank without delay. Others with permits to the seamline zone are delayed at the checking posts next to the terminal. Today there is a line. We time the passage by watching a man in a striped shirt. It takes ten minutes from the moment he passes the turnstile until he leaves the checkpost. You'd need engineering and acrobatic skills to get a suitcase or large packages through the turnstile. One of the people passing through tells us that it's more important to visit the Gilboa checkpoint (Jalama). Few people pass from the West Bank into the seamline zone.
16:40
We leave. A line of loaded pickup trucks is already waiting for the checkpoint where goods are inspected to open the next morning.
'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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