‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Thu 30.5.13, Morning
A'anin CP (214) 0600
Today the passage is flowing. There are no complaints. Today the woman soldier from the Military Police, the one in charge of the 'fashion police,' is not here, and so it looks to us as if fewer people are being sent back home due to 'clothes which are not appropriate for work in the field!'
On his own initiative, Lieutenant Shalev from the DCO walks with us all the way from the middle of the CP, but before we could talk to him, Achmed told him the history of his trouble with the permits. Last year we managed to arrange agricultural passage permits through the Tura CP for him and for ten other farmers from A'anin. It is far away but with the permit they could go to their lands in the seamline zone not only on Mondays and Thursdays (the days when the A'anin CP is open). Achmed received a permit to go through with his tractor. Going around the long way costs him NIS200 and an hour and a half in each direction. This week on Monday, the DCO officer Pathian notified him that paradise is over. He will no longer be able to go through the Tura CP with his tractor. Achmed has to plough between olive trees and how will he bring the plough to the grove? by carrying it? Lieutenant Shalev listens, writes notes, and promises to find out about this.
Fadi, a resident of A'anin returns and asks us to help his wife get an agricultural passage permit so that she will be able to work with him in the family's olive grove, which is 'imprisoned' in the seamline zone. About half a year ago we asked about that and we were told that in the past she tried to go through with false documents, and since then, she is being punished. All her requests to get a permit are refused. Fadi claims assertively that there was no such thing. We cannot prove it, but in our opinion, if they want her not to use a counterfeit permit, they should give her a kosher permit or they should move the fence.
All of them, with no exception are careful to greet us with a 'good morning' and a smile, including the young people whose knowledge of Hebrew is limited to these words..
Tura Shaked CP (300) 0700
Those who get to the CP have permits to go through and so they do. We must not forget that many of them, very many, do not get here and do not go through because they do not have permits for passage – no matter what the reasons that the occupiers manage to think up.
Barta'a – Reihan CP 0715
We did not go into the area of the CP. It looks very nice from afar. We met Said on the hill opposite Zebda and we gave him some clothes. An 'old' boy of 18, whom we first met when he was 9 and came to the Reihan CP to sell tea or coffee with his older brother Walid.
Old Barta'a CP (386) 0745
Deserted and clean. We have to find out if and when it is open.
We visited Walid in his place of work. From there Neta went on to the Jalameh CP in the service of the NGO 'On the Way to Recuperation', to take someone to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
'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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