'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Ya'bed-Dotan
14:30 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
The parking lot was filled to capacity. The Palestinian security guard doesn’t know if we are allowed to park on the side of the road outside. He consults with his superior. It’s allowed. Only few workers return at this hour; most of them work in agriculture in Israel. They carry sacks of oranges in their hands. The seamstresses also return at this hour, friendly to us as always. A driver complains again about the deep ruts in the road at the entrance to the settlement of Harmesh (See report 16.11.2017.) The man who sells coffee is not allowed to operate his tiny business here in the parking lot (does someone guard the exclusivity of the settler and owner of the kiosk in the middle of the entrance/exit way from the terminal?) The man who sells coffee tries to locate himself at the sides of the road, on top of the garbage that surrounds the well-groomed checkpoint.
14:50 – Yabed-Dotan Checkpoint
On our way to Yabed-Dotan, next to the village of Emricha and near the always-closed gate to the side road to Yabed, the soldiers set up a high screened fence. The checkpoint itself is staffed by soldiers. In the short time that we were there no cars were delayed and the traffic flowed.
15:20 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, the Seamline Zone Side
Many workers are already returning from work in Israel. We go down with them to the screened sleeve, on their way to the Palestinian side. Individuals cross via the terminal to the Seamline Zone. When we return to our car, one of these individuals, a young man with a small child and lots of packages, requests a favor: that we should watch his packages, because he forgot his identity card in the terminal. He now rushes with his child to get it. We watch the packages and wait for him.
15:50 – Anin Checkpoint
Only 30 people and one tractor wait for the checkpoint to open, perhaps many did not go to work because of the rain. The soldiers on duty open a bit late, admit people 5 at a time and inspect their identity cards one by one.
16:00 – All those waiting pass through to the village, and a few more arrive. We leave.
'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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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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