‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Thu 7.3.13, Afternoon
Translation: Dvora K.
15.00 A'anin CP
People from the village of A'anin arrive and go through immediately to the seamline zone, on foot and by tractor. One of the tractor drivers tells us that 120 permits have been issued last week. His permit will expire on March 22. He has already submitted a request for renewal to the Palestinian DCO, but there he was told that they do not know when the Israeli DCO will take care of it. This man has an olive grove of 120 dunam between the CP and Umm-Reihan and from past experience he already fears that the permit renewal will be delayed for two weeks in which he will not be able to go through this CP.
15:40 Shaked-Tura CP
There is very lttle traffic in both directions, as is normal at this hour in this CP.
16:00 Reihan-Barta'a CP, seamline zone side
Few workers arrive at the CP at this time but there is relatively a great deal of traffic of families with children, in both directions.
16:15 The line of workers returning to the West Bank from work in the seamline zone and in Israel is growing. Many carry sacks of oranges. One of the workers offers us two especially delicious oranges. The passage is quick, even the passage of women students and of a few families from the West Bank to the seamline zone does not cause delay. For a minute they close the turnstile and immediately a queue forms. When they open it, the queue disperses. One person tells us that in the morning the passage in Taibe ( the Irtach, Shaar Ephraim CP) is terrible. 'It is worse than for animals', he says. He asks us why we cannot help them there.
16:45 we leave the CP where there is now no queue. People going down the sleeve ask us if the CP 'is good today'. We hope it is and that it will keep on operating 'in an orderly fashion'.
On our way home we pick up a resident of A'anin, who has a permit to work in Israel, and is in a hurry to get to Bank Hapoalim in Umm-el-Fahm. He has a carpentry shop in A'anin and he works there with his brother and his cousin. He is the only one of the three who has a permit to work in Israel and he works for both Arabs and Jews. He looks and sounds satisfied. He leaves his car at the Reihan-Barta'a CP on the Palestinian side. He says that the trip from there to A'anin takes a quarter of an hour. There is no need to go through Jenin; there is a shortcut through Arqua and Yamun.
'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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