‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Marcia L., Translation
Barta’a Checkpoint, 05:55
Tens of people wait for transportation to work in the upper parking lot. Most of them appear to me to be 30+ years old but obviously there younger or older too. According to them, about 5000 people or more pass through the checkpoint every morning, since they are permitted to pass from here into Israel to work. Likewise, they say the passage is quick today and that for two weeks there have been no problems. In the middle of the way down to the terminal, there is a kiosk and opposite are cement benches. Workers on their way to work sit with their friends, smoke and drink coffee. Others pass by them and hurry to their rides, buckle their belts that they took off for the inspection, speak on the phone . . .
At the entrance to the checkpoint, in the Palestinian parking lot, there still are not a lot of people and whoever arrives, enters immediately. The vans and food trucks wait for inspection which begins at 08:00, after they have waited for hours. In the area of vehicle inspection, three soldiers are checking under and inside the vehicles with strong flashlights and finally let them go.
Agricultural Checkpoint Anin (214), 06:34
The checkpoint is open, people say that about 30 people passed through. Inspection of the documents is carried out at the central gate, far from where we can see. By 06:50, almost everyone has passed through. A young man in a white shirt stands opposite soldiers. According to his body language, it appears that he is trying to convince them to let him pass. Clearly, without success. Routine complaints: The soldiers suspect that because of his clean clothes, he wasn’t going to go to work his land. The interrogation is humiliating. Israeli flag is stuck wretchedly in the top of the fence that surrounds the iron gate at the entrance to the checkpoint.
Telephone report in the afternoon: Again the checkpoint was openedvery late. It is supposed to be opened at 15:00 but the soldiers came only at 17:20! Ramadan begins today; a little consideration?
Tura-Shaked Checkpoint (300), 07:05
A garbage container greets us; the garbage is strewn all around the area, but who cares? Students are on summer vacation until September and their absence at the checkpoint is felt. Next to the turnstile, on the far side next to the Palestinian village Tura, about 20 people are waiting. The pace of passing through is slow. A number of cars are checked carefully on their way to the West Bank. People expect that the checkpoint will open at 06:30 now, during the hot days of Ramadan. Consideration of this fact is really requested.
07:5 – There is no one still waiting at the turnstile. 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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