‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Mon 30.9.13, Morning
06:05 – A'anin Agricultural Checkpoint
When we arrived the gate was already open. About ten people had already crossed and were pleased that they were able to cross quickly today.
The checkpoint consists of three gates that are far from each other, and we are only able to see and hear what is going on at the gate close to us and the gate in the center. A'anin checkpoint is only open two days a week, and only then can farmers from A'anin cross to their olive groves in the seamline zone that are on the other side of the separation barrier.
Even though the olive harvest will begin only in two weeks, the farmers have requested that the checkpoint be open longer so that they can prepare for the harvest. They were told at their regional council that the gate would be open on Friday, October 4th, despite the fact that the gate is usually closed on Fridays. People also reported that 1,000 permits (?) were received to cross to the seamline zone during the olive harvest.
We hear a lot of noise from the lower gate that we cannot see. A farmer arrives whose groves are on the wrong side of the checkpoint. He has requested a permit to cross at Shaked-Tura Checkpoint, which is open every day, but he only received a permit to cross at A'anin. Another Palestinian reports that his permit was taken away and he was told to collect it at the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Salem, but when he arrived there in work clothes they became angry and sent him home again without a permit.
06:40 – An army jeep arrives and soldiers get out and go to the far gate of the checkpoint, leaving the motor running. We think about the pollution and wasted fuel.
06:47 – People are crossing very slowly, and we are told that there are close to 100 people waiting to cross. Despite the fact that over 1,000 permits were issued, there are still entire families who have not received permits.
We left for Shaked – Tura Checkpoint at 06:55, which is due to open at 07:00
07:05 – The checkpoint, which is a "fabric of life" checkpoint located at the separation barrier, is still closed. An armored vehicle with soldiers arrives at 07:10. There are people waiting to cross in both directions. Crossing begins at 07:15 but we are unable to see people being checked. On our side cars are waiting to take people to work in the nearby settlement of Shaked and industrial zone. Other drivers are checked before they continue towards the Palestinian Authority.
07:25 – We leave to drive to Reihan – Barta'a checkpoint to collect Ali and his mother who will be driven to Rambam Hospital by Leah.
07:35 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Ali and his parents are waiting for us when we arrive. His mother's ID is checked and checked again at the vehicle checkpoint. Ali and his mother say goodbye to his father and we leave at 07:45.
'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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