‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Shaked – Tura Checkpoint, 14:50
The checkpoint is quiet; a few pedestrians are crossing without entering the inspection room.
15:30 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Returning workers report that there have been problems with the electronic palm readers, which don't always work. This causes crowding and delays near the machine. Towards 16:00the flow of people returning from work increases.
A'anin Checkpoint 16:00
About 20 people returning from the olive harvest, and several tractors, are waiting next to the checkpoint. The gate is opened but immediately closed again because the soldiers are called to attend to a security incident. Meanwhile we listen to people's complaints. One man tells us that he previously had a crossing permit for six months to cross at Shaked checkpoint, since he also works in his sister's olive grove in Um Reihan. His permit was confiscated because one day he arrived at the checkpoint by hitching a ride in an Israeli car, which is against the law. He was granted a permit to cross by the Liaison and Coordination Administration, but only for one month and only at A'anin.
Everyone is complaining that even though their permits state that the checkpoint would be open every day until November 15th (end of the olive harvest), in fact the checkpoint is closed on Fridays and Saturdays. We telephoned the Liaison and Coordination Administration and were told that the closing had been done with the permission of the mayor of the regional council, and that if a request would be submitted to open it again it would be answered and obtained. We informed the workers about this, but it appears that they do not have a great deal of faith in the mayor of their regional council.
There are a lot of women among the olive harvesters. Two of them said that they have four groves to harvest, but they were the only ones in their large families to receive permits and have to do the difficult work alone.
At 16:30 the soldiers opened the checkpoint again and people began to cross one by one, without any problems. The first tractor entered the checkpoint with a wagon filled with sacks of olives. The policewoman insisted that the sacks be unloaded to be checked. The driver asked her to check the sacks without his having to unload them, but immediately the conversation turned into shouts and threats. An officer was called over to settle the matter, and eventually at 17:10 the tractor was permitted to cross without having to unload the sacks.
'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)
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