‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Mon 13.5.13, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:05 – A'anin Checkpoint
A new crew is carrying out the old routine. The checkpoint is busy, and things are moving slowly. About 50 people are waiting. There is a vehicle from the Liaison and Coordination Administration but we haven't met anyone. Inspections are being carried out near the front gate. People are being checked meticulously, particularly new clothing and small plastic bags of food. Large plastic bags are carefully inspected as well. Whoever arrives on a tractor is allowed to bring in clothing. M. has also informed us that the soldiers allowed him to bring clothing. We are surprised at the change in policy and give him several bags of used clothing.
At 06:30 things are still going very slowly. About 40 people are waiting, and three tractors, and they cross to the center gate of the checkpoint. There is a lot of noise and commotion and many people are waiting in line. At 06:50 there were still 25 people waiting, and it took about a minute to check each person.
A young smiling man with a lot of teeth missing gestures that he has three crossing permits – for A'anin, Barta'a, and Tura: i.e. he has three permits allowing him to pass from one part of his own country to another…What else does a person need?
Shaked – Tura "Fabric of Life" Checkpoint
The checkpoint opens at 07:00. We are told that the soldiers arrive late every day. They should arrive on time. We observe the superfluous equipment at the checkpoint: traffic signs, facilities, roadblocks, metal fences surrounding the checkpoint, and roads that were paved on agricultural land, and we are once again enraged at the waste and at the lack of respect.
At 07:10 the checkpoint opens, first in the direction of the West Bank. Students and teachers cross. On the other side there are 25 people waiting in front of the turnstile for the inspection facility to open. The workers going to the seamline zone can cross only after the people going in the direction of the West Bank have crossed.
At 07:17 the first worker comes out of the sleeve into the area of the seamline zone. The second one follows. We see that crossing is very slow. Some of the people work in the nearby settlements, building luxurious homes. We hear once again that many young people are being refused permits to work their land. According to local residents, this is because they refuse to cooperate with the security forces.
08:00 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Seven trucks and vans were waiting along the road to be checked during the 20 minutes that we spent observing the checkpoint. All the rest falls into the category of "the routine of occupation."
We left at 08:30.
'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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