'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05:50 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
The upper parking lot in the seamline zone was full and a lot of people were waiting for rides. There were still parking spaces in the lower parking lot on the Palestinian side. There was a long line in front of the turnstile, which began operating constantly from 05:50 until 06:01, and a person enters each minute, but the line did not grow any shorter. More and more workers continued to arrive. The turnstile began working again at 06:07 until 06:11, but meanwhile the line continued to grow longer. By 06:18 the line reached all the way to the road and the parking lot was full and the gate was closed.
06:30 A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers opened the first gate and opened the second one at 06:33. The third gate is below the hill on the road to A’anin and cannot be seen. The first person came out at 06:37 followed by a woman with three girls. There were no soldiers in the entire area up to the second gate. I went in and stood next to it. A soldier from a distance asked me if everything was all right. We are not usually permitted to go up to the middle gate which is within the security barrier itself.
A young man was sent back. His uncle told me that his permit was for Reihan Checkpoint, but his fields are right here next to the fence. He is supposed to take care of them. Another young man was not permitted to cross. His brother said that he is 28 years old and has no permit, but thought he would be able to cross with his father. Several young children who appeared to be extremely happy were crossing with their father. The first tractor arrived at 06:55. The brother of the young man who was not allowed to cross asked the soldiers for permission to return to the village. At 07:11 the last person crossed and the middle gate was locked.
07:20 Tura Shaked Checkpoint
There were few people crossing at this time and there was no one near the turnstile. People told me that there were about 20 people waiting between the turnstile and the inspection room and that inspection was taking a long time. At 07:35 there were three people left in front of the turnstile. Cars crossed quickly from one side to another. I left at 07:40.
'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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