‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Thu 7.11.13, Morning
A'anin CP 0605 (beautiful sunrise as always)
We arrived a little after the sun rose, together with the soldiers. Within five minutes, the first Palestinians began to come out of the village of A'anin which we can see from the hill opposite. The soldiers inspected those going through in the center of the CP, which we see but do not hear. In the beginning the stream of those leaving was steady and continuous, but as it went on it became tiring. About 150 men and women and a lot of children (there is no school, the Prophet Mohammed's birthday) went through an investigation, a prodding of the things they had with them and most of all suspicions – on the part of the soldiers. After an hour and a half, when we went away, the passage had not yet been finished.
A family with many women and children came out on a tractor(photo) and stood waiting for one of the young boys who upset the woman
soldier (he did not approach when she called him, or did approach when she did not call him) and now as a punishment they detain him for a quarter of an hour. Somebody wants to transport two containers of olive oil for his family (perhaps in Umm el-Reihan) but they do not allow him to. Just before him, somebody did leave with a yellow container of that kind; why don't they let him do it? perhaps only one is allowed. Rumors that next week the CP will go back to operating only twice a week (instead of daily as in the season of olive-picking) cause the farmers a lot of worry. That is not good, they say, there are still another twenty days of work. Neta tries to find out from the DCO officers. who just now are leaving the CP in their luxury vehicle, for just how long the CP will open daily. The answer: "That depends on the Palestinians." and why don't they open it on Fridays and Saturdays? "That's part of the procedure." We didn't even convey these strange answers to the local people.
Tura-Shaked CP 0740
Traffic is thin. A minibus exudes a group of young girls dressed according to the latest fashion, happy and joking, apparently they are on a trip. A person that went through the CP approaches us to share an insult: "I arranged the people in a line so that they could enter one by one. The soldier yelled at me — here, I say what to do. I'm the officer in charge and not you!: Here, too men, women and children leave in the direction of olive groves, but not many. This brings up again the question and the answer: if not for the occupation and the definitions, how many more people would be moving around the groves today.
Barta'a-Reihan 0800
All the regular sights: The parking lot is overflowing with cars; there is a continuous stream of people coming from the direction of the West Bank to the seamline zone, and especially to East Barta'a. Hi! Good Morning… A morning of flowers …. Morning of cream …What's new — Everything is perfect …. thank God. Ali and his mother get into our vehicle. They will go with Neta for the regular treatments at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The boy suffers from pain, he is thin as a rail, downcast. He has grown old, all of them know Ali and let him go through with his mother quickly, without waiting on line.
'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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