'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya'bed-Dotan
14:40 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
A large refrigerated truck crossed to the seamline zone. A woman lifted her two small sons into the cab and got in as well. It was a bit difficult for her to get up wearing a long dress. A car, a woman, and a teenager crossed to the seamline zone. No one was crossing to the West Bank at this time of day. There was an amazing amount of litter on both sides of the road – plastic bags and garbage were everywhere.
15:00 – A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers were on time and the gates of the checkpoint were already open. Only ten people and three tractors loaded wth scraps were waiting to cross. We were once told that the scrap plastic and other junk were sold to a recycling factory for one and a half Shekels per kilogram. Another person arrived as we were leaving, but we did not wait for the gates to be locked at 15:30.
We drove past Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint. Both the official and private parking lots were full, and there were many cars parked alongside both sides of the road.
15:40 – Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint
The checkpoint was unmanned, and only the concrete barriers standing in both lanes forced drivers to slow down. There was a new sign in Hebrew, Arabic, and English justifiably telling drivers not to cross the unbroken line on the road. There was an Arabic word halas (enough!) – truly a gesture to our neighbors.
On the way back to Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint we stopped at the thriving grocery store on the main road in the village of Emricha to buy cold drinks.
16:00 – Reihan – Barta’ab Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
We parked on the side of the road and could barely manage to make our way among the parked and jostling cars on foot. We have never seen the parking lot so crowded. Many people are returning from work at this hour. The new shelter is not yet being used, and the concrete ledge surrounding it was being used as a bench. The shed used for prayer was still in its place. There were three makeshift booths selling soft drinks and snacks squeezed in among the cars. I had the strange idea that the booths could have been located next to the new shed and the prayer corner.
16:20 – We made our way to our car through the crowded cars that were maneuvering their way out of the parking lot.
צפון 4.7.18
צפרירה זמיר, נטע גולן (מדווחת ומצלמת)
14:40 מחסום טורה-שקד
משאית קירור גדולה עוברת למרחב התפר. אישה מעלה את שני בניה הפעוטים לתא הנהג ומטפסת לשם בעצמה. קצת קשה בשמלה ארוכה. עוד מכונית, אישה ונער עוברים למרחב התפר. איש אינו עובר לגדה בשעה זו. הלכלוך מדהים, ממש שדרת ניילונים ופלסטיקים משני צידי הכביש.
15:00 מחסום עאנין
החיילים דייקנים, שערי המחסום כבר פתוחים, רק עשרה אנשים ושלושה טרקטורים עמוסי גרוטאות ממתינים למעבר (3). פעם נאמר לנו שהגרוטאות נמכרות למפעל מחזור בשקל וחצי לקילו. אדם נוסף מגיע כשאנחנו עוזבות. איננו ממתינות לנעילת השערים ב 15:30.
אנחנו חולפות על פני מחסום ברטעה. מגרשי החנייה, הרשמי והפרטיים, מלאים. מכוניות רבות חונות גם לאורך שולי הכביש בשני הצדדים.
15:40 מחסום יעבד-דותן
המחסום כנראה אינו מאויש. רק הבטונדות על הכביש מאלצות את הנהגים להאט בשני הכיוונים. לפני המחסום יש שלט חדש בשלוש שפות, עברית, ערבית ואנגלית, ובו בקשה נמרצת ומוצדקת לא לחצות קו הפרדה רצוף. בשלט בעברית המילה בערבית חלאס! ממש מחווה לשכנינו.
בדרך חזרה למחסום ברטעה אנחנו עוצרות לשתייה קרה במכולת הפורחת על הכביש החוצה את הכפר אמריחה.
16:00 מחסום ברטעה-ריחן, הצד הפלסטיני
אנחנו חונות בצד הדרך ובקושי מצליחות לעבור ברגל בין המכוניות החונות והמתמרנות במגרש החנייה. מעולם לא ראינו אותו מלא כל כך. אנשים רבים חוזרים מהעבודה בשעה זו. הסככה החדשה עדיין אינה פועלת וקורת הבטון מסביבה משמשת כספסל. הסככה המשמשת לתפילה עדיין ניצבת במקומה. שלושה דוכנים מאולתרים של משקאות קלים וחטיפים דחוקים בין המכוניות. עולה בדעתי רעיון מוזר, אפשר היה לתכנן בצמוד לסככה החדשה דוכנים נאים וגם פינת תפילה מסודרת. סתם הזיה.
16:20 המכוניות, החונות והמתמרנות, עדיין דחוסות ואנחנו מפלסות ביניהן את דרכנו למכוניתנו.
'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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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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