Anin Checkpoint: The detached DCO
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We were not able to find out through the District Coordination Office (DCO) the opening hours of Anin Checkpoint after the olive harvest ended. During the harvest, they opened every day; now they returned to opening twice a week. During the last months, there was no relation between the hours that were declared as opening hours and when the soldiers came to open the checkpoint. We phoned our friend M., a resident of Anin, one of the few who officially passes through the checkpoint with a tractor, and he says that they open at 15:30. On the way to the checkpoint we again phoned the DCO and a female soldier answered that they are not opening. To my amazement, she explained that they did not open in the morning because of the stormy weather and even notified the farmers beforehand. (How??). In normal weather, they open on Mondays and Wednesdays between 07:00 and 07:15 and close between 16:00 and 16:15. Hagar phoned M., and it turns out that indeed, they opened that morning, and he was already waiting next to the checkpoint for the afternoon opening.
15:00 – Anin Checkpoint: The Permanent Ritual
M., his son, and his tractor are already waiting for the gate to open. In the morning, an additional man was with them and now he already passed through via the breach in the fence. A car with two border police inside stops beside us. According to them, it is prohibited for us to be in this place or on the entire road, from the juncture to the checkpoint. The reason? “Military area.” We explained to them who we are and after pointless arguing, they settled down and continued on their way.
15:30 – A military police car stops, and the soldiers also don’t understand what we are doing. However, they are easily convinced that we are all right. Our driver wasn’t comfortable, so we asked M. to notify us when he passes Anin and leaves. They passed through at 15:45.
15:40 – Tura Checkpoint
A resident of Umm Reihan passes through. This is all that occurred during the short time we were there.
We made a detour on Highway 611, which leads from the new city of Harish to the junction before Barta’a Checkpoint. Everything is “as usual: The breaches in the separation fence are active; at the foot of the villages Daher al Malec to Abd Qeiqis, there are many cars of those who passed through those breaches; and there are transportation vehicles for workers, which are parked on the sides of road 611.
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6:00 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, the Seamline Zone side
Many are returning from work at this hour, and we join them on their way via the long sleeve (the enclosed and roofed passage for pedestrians) to the turnstiles for crossing to the West Bank. On our way back, we walk opposite them, and some greet us.
16:15: We travel home and notice police vehicles at the upper entrance to Umm al Fahm and also on the Wadi Ara Road.
'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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