‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
14:45 – A'anin Checkpoint
Several people, including three women and two children, are already waiting in front of the locked gate. They tell us that in the morning the soldiers are suspicious of anyone wearing three layers of clothing, as their intent might not be to work their land. The soldiers feel that two layers of clothing are sufficient. The Palestinians and we both feel that it is cold, very cold indeed, early in the winter morning.
At 15:10 the soldiers had not yet arrived to open the gate. We called the Liaison and Coordination Administration who said they would see what was happening. At 15:15 the soldiers arrived and opened the gate.
At 15:25 the soldiers closed the gate, explaining that there was an incident at the fence and they had to leave, and would be back shortly. The incident ended before the soldiers managed to get there and they returned at 15:30.
Somebody was not allowed to take a bag of clothing, whic we had brought with us, across the checkpoint. The Palestinian brought it back and we attempted to convince the soldiers to let him take it. A sergeant explains that this is an agricultural checkpoint and clothing cannot be taken across. A policewoman claims that she is dealing with the Palestinian and becomes angry that I intervened. A woman is holding a bag of children's clothing. The sergeant looks to see if the clothing would fit her child. He asks someone to explain to the woman that this time she would be permitted to take the bag across, but this is the last time. No doubt our security was being preserved by this act…
By 15:50 everyone had crossed.
16:00 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
There is very little traffic, which is usual for this hour. A man crosses with a wagon and a donkey. The military policewoman gives him a friendly greeting. The garbage container is full and there is garbage scattered all around. Evidently they fired the Palestinian who was in charge of cleaning up the checkpoints – an effort to save money for the security budget.
16:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
We entered the sleeve, which now extends up to the public toilets. A lot of workers are returning home from work. One man asks to enter the terminal in the direction of the West Bank.
We don't understand why he was not permitted to enter. Only a few people are crossing to the seamline zone. One person tells us that we should have been there in the morning, because there were a lot of delays and getting through the terminal took 45 minutes.
17:00 – On our way home at the T-junction leading to Tura Checkpoint to the east and to Um A-Reihan to the west, we saw a group of Palestinians standing on the side of the road with a group of soldiers and a Palestinian man. An army vehicle was parked on the other side of the road. We watched the soldiers handcuff the man and lead him into the car. We were told by the Palestinians that the man had no permit, but we did not know which permit. It was a sad picture.
'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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