‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya’bed-Dotan, Thu 27.6.13, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
06:00 A’anin checkpoint
Crossing goes slowly. We were told that someone was sent back to the village because he had clothes in a bag that didn’t seem like work clothes. Explanation: Since anyone going through the A’anin checkpoint to the seam zone can also reach Tel Aviv without interference, they’re all suspected of planning to move to the Israeli city with malicious intent. Clean clothes in a small plastic bag arouse suspicion. If someone works outdoors, why does he need spare clean clothes? The soldiers are authorized to decide whom to send back with his bag and who should be allowed to bring it through.
Some locals told us (Mr. Katzover, take note) about new flying/mobile checkpoints that soldiers set up on internal roads near the village in Areas A and B (that are under the control of the Palestinian Authority) and stop people to inspect their documents.
We saw only a few children crossing with their fathers to the seam zone.
07:00 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
On the way to the checkpoint we drove into the Shaked settlement and saw impressive development proceeding apace – a row of homes facing the settlement’s fence, some opposite the Shahak industrial zone or Tura. Crossing through the checkpoint is slow. There’s little traffic in the absence of pupils and teachers who are on summer vacation. B. tells us his wife wasn’t allowed to cross with their three children (aged 8, 7 and three months) because she has an employment crossing permit. In order to bring little children on an agricultural permit, the parent must be the legal owner of the land trapped in the seam zone, or the owner’s son. And if she just wants to visit relatives in the next village? She has to obtain a one-time permit that’s only good for that visit.
We heard complaints about two female soldiers who behave very badly to Palestinians today in the checkpoint.
07:40 Barta’a-Reihan checkpoint
We drove into the Palestinian parking lot to show Nurit, our new volunteer the large checkpoint in our area. It was quiet, light traffic, people crossing unimpeded. Taxi drivers play cards near the prayer area. 6 commercial vehicles with merchandise and agricultural products wait on the road to the checkpoint for inspection.
08:00 Yabed-Dothan checkpoint
Traffic flows in both directions without interference. The side road to Yabed is blocked by a yellow iron bar
'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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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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