'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Yesterday, Wednesday afternoon, a fatal road accident took place on the road between the Shahak Industrial Zone and the settlement of Shaked near Tura c.p.
05:45 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
The Palestinian parking lot was not full yet and there was no line in front of the turnstile. One of the Palestinian attendants asked for our help in eliminating his ban to enter Israel. We gave him one of Sylvia’s helpful notes. It appeared that a permit to work in Israel is worth more than a job as an attendant for the Palestinian Authority. One of the drivers explained that there were few people today because they are staying home to attend the funerals of the people killed in the traffic accident.
At 05:55 the turnstile remained closed for several minutes when two vehicles passed by on the security road. A long line immediately began to form. When the turnstile opened again about 200 people passed through, but there was still a line.
06:15 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
People were waiting for their rides and drivers were waiting for passengers. The kiosk belonging to the settler from Hermesh is doing well and people want coffee with or without a piece of cake on their way to work. There were five inspection stations open in the terminal. We met people coming out of the terminal whom we had seen on the Palestinian side.
06:40 – A’anin Checkpoint
When we arrived the first person came out followed by about 70 men, one woman, and a toddler during the next 20 minutes. People here were also talking about the accident, but there was no one killed from A’anin. One person complained about people driving carelessly, including his son. He admitted that he also drove carelessly when he was young, but this is evidently irrelevant to what happened yesterday.
07:05 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
A person complained to us about the checkpoint opening late. We were told that the accident involved a full trailer that hit a minibus that was driving workers from the Shahak Industrial Zone. He knew two of the people who were killed and their deaths were unnecessary. מיותר
07:20 – There were few people crossing and the electricity was still off. We left.
'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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