'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya'bed-Dotan
A’anin Checkpoint opened 50 minutes late, but the Palestinians waited quietly with unbelievable patience.
14:4014:40 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
There was no traffic and the checkpoint was very quiet and very dirty. There is a new Israeli flag flying “proudly” over the checkpoint.
15:00 – Yaabed-Dotan Checkpoint
We arrived at the checkpoint after driving past Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint. The gates on both sides of the “bridge” were locked as usual as well as the gate to the short cut road from Yaabed to Emricha.
At Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint traffic was moving through without delay except for drivers having to slow down because of the concrete blocks in the road.
15:20 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
A group of women and children were walking along the road towards the West Bank. We didn’t know where they were going. The parking lot was completely full and drivers had to maneuver in order to get out. A few drivers were sitting on the fence at the exit from the fenced in area to try and get passengers. A lot of workers were already coming back from work. A soldier was standing in the parking area alongside a Palestinian attendant and a group of elderly women. As far as we could understand a discussion was taking place about the women crossing to the seamline zone through the vehicle crossing. Eventually an elderly woman carrying a large package was allowed to go through the vehicle crossing while being accompanied by another woman.
15:50 15:50 A’anin Checkpoint
We arrived a bit late for the opening time of 15:45 but the soldiers had not yet arrived. Dozens of people and one donkey were waiting. The gate facing the access road was open but no one entered the fenced-in area. A car drove past the checkpoint on the security road but did not stop.
16:00 – We called the Liaison and Coordination Office. A soldier said he would find out why the checkpoint was not open. We continued to call but by 16:30 the soldier had still not found out what was going on. More people and a tractor arrived and people asked us to call again. Everyone waited quietly.
At 16:30 we called the brigade. A female soldier informed us that the checkpoint was not open because someone had thrown stones at the fence. We reminded her that people at the checkpoint had not thrown stones and were waiting so patiently and quietly it was hard to believe after a long work day. The soldier informed us that the stone throwing incident had occurred nearby and that we should not call the brigade in the future but only the Liaison and Coordination Office. Another vehicle passed by without stopping. At 16:35 a car arrived and stopped. Everyone crossed through the first open gate and stood in front of the middle gate that was still closed. (See photo 163312) At this point even the Palestinians lost patience and began shouting angrily. When the gate opened everyone ran towards the village. At 16:45 a few people were still arriving. They were smart and arrived just before the checkpoint was due to close and didn’t have to wait.
'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)
Ruti TuvalMar-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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