Anin, Barta’a/Reikhan, Tura/Shaked
06:10 A'anin CP
We came a bit late for the opening of the CP and were happy to see that passage was flowing quickly. Many had already gone through, some of them children who have already started their summer vacation. Perhaps our absence at the time of the opening helped? Or perhaps the presence of the DCO officer?
06:40. All the people have gone through. Near the CP there is a pile of broken/ used plastic chairs and a broken plastic cupboard. Someone from A'anin did not succeed in transporting these objects through the CP on his way home to the village.
06:50 Tura-Shaked CP
The DCO officer is here already. The CP is empty of soldiers but wide open . The soldiers in charge of opening the CP and responsible for the inspection have still not arrived. No one is waiting to go through from the side of the seamline zone. School is out.
07:10 The soldiers arive and open the CP late. Passage from the West Bank to the seamline zone is very slow. The DCO officer finds an excuse in the late opening.
A man tells us: "I'm ashamed of what I want to say; you come here all the time, but do not help." He has difficulty understanding that we have the will to help, but we have only a limited capacity to do so.
7:40 Barta's-Reihan CP, on the side of the seamline zone.
A blue tarp has been spread over the play area near the parking lot. It might be a good idea to open a summer camp in the CP…
People emerge from the teminal and go up the sleeve to the parking lot of the seamline zone. Taxis are waiting for them. Families that are all dressed up go through to the West Bank. The wedding season is in full swing. At the exit from the CP a well-equipped garbage truck is parked; this is a gift from the European Union.
08:10 On our way from the CP we pick up a person who works in Umm-a-Reihan. To our surprise, he asks us how much he has to pay for the ride.
09:00 Jalameh – Glboa CP
It is quiet here at this hour. The pedestrian CP is in on a break. The baby M. and her father managed to go through before the halt and they are already waiting for the ride to Rambam, for the daily dialysis. This morning M. got through with her father and not as usual with her mother, because two of her mother's brothers are getting married. As noted above, this is the wedding season. The father says that passage through the Jalameh CP is convenient and quicker than that through the Barta'a CP.
There is a long queue of cars belonging to Israeli Arabs in the vehicle CP; they are on their way to Jenin.
'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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