‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Mon 18.3.13, Morning
Naomi Gal translation
06:05 'Anin Checkpoint
The first ones are leaving on their way from the village to their farming plots in the Seam Zone.
We meet Bilal, who has replaces Wahal, the DCO representative. He indicates a willingness to hear and help so we briefly raise three problems we regularly encounter in this checkpoint, he listens willingly: difficulties in transferring children 12-16 years old with one of their parents; the checking of clothes and personal belongings beyond the requirements of security; providing permits to other family members.
6:15 – about 50 people are waiting to cross. They are being checked at the center of the checkpoint. The checking is fast. Fathers with children are crossing, many relatively.
The dirt mound in the checkpoint area was removed. What next? A National Park glorifying the State of Israel?
A young man tells about his friend whose permit was taken away by the police in the Seam Zone.
06:45No more people waiting, the checkpoint closes.
7:00 Shaked-Turah Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open, but the booth for checking people is not active yet and people on both sides are waiting to cross from one side to the other. A horse and a carriage with children are crossing from the lone house towards the West Bank. School children get off the pickup truck and run to the checkpoint. After their driver is checked and gets permission to proceed, he gathers them and they continue toward Turah. His car radio is playing loud hymns. We asked why he did not turn the radio off and were told it is forbidden to turn off hymns.
7:15 the booth is opened for checking and within minutes the first ones start leaving toward the Seam Zone. The first car crosses toward the West Bank.
07:30 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
At the bus station in the middle of the checkpoint an armed soldier boards the bus, which then continues east to Mevo Dotan.
Many people are crossing at this time; most of them probably work at Barta'a and at Shahak industrial area. The drivers are saying that the blockage at the side entrance to Ya'bad has been removed after it was agreed that the children would stop throwing stones at the road.
7-8 small and large trucks are waiting for checking and crossing permits. The drivers pass the time sipping coffee. The first driver in line tells us that he's parked his car here last night. The crossing of commercial vehicles started at 05:30. A private car bypasses the waiting vehicles, enters the booth for permit checking and continues on its way. Within fifteen minutes the truck drivers are summoned to the center of the checkpoint for document verification before they proceed to the checking of their cars.
One of them tells us about a relative of his who has stayed to work in Israel although his permit had expired. The police was on his trail and he tried to escape, jumped over a wall or a fence and broke a leg. Now he is in RambamHospital, two weeks already. His wife, his elderly mother and ten children remain at home without a breadwinner.
8:15 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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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