‘Anin, Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 11.2.10, Morning
06:10 A'anin CP
This morning more people are going through than usual. It seems that additional permits for 'agricultural' passage have been given. For some reason, inspection is done twice: once near the middle gate and again between that gate and the gate on the side of the seamline zone. We could not see what was inspected in each phase. A few women go through with their children.
One woman goes through with a little boy and tells us that they would not let another son of 15 go through with her. As you know, the permit says that it can be used to go through with a child of 12. Those aged 12-16 do not have their own ID cards and therefore cannot go through by themselves. In the past they would be allowed through with their parents. Today, they were not allowed to do so. Our phone call to the DCO and conversations with a woman soldier and with the DCO representative, did not help. The DCO representative said that there were other children who were not allowed through this morning. He promised to talk to the commander of the Salem DCO. In the afternoon, I tried to discuss the matter with him (by phone) but I could not get a clear answer; he promised to find out about it and 'to sharpen [clarify] the procedures.' 06:40 – They lock the gates.
06:50 Shaked-Tura CP
The representative of the DCO reached the CP before us. He saw that the soldiers had not yet arrived (the CP opens at 07:00) and drove off to bring them from the base nearby. 07:05 – They open the gates. About 15 people and a few cars are waiting on the side of the West Bank. The children from the 'isolated house' are the first to arrive. School children arrive on foot and in cars from Daher el-Malek. High school students arrive from Um-a-Reihan as well. A van full of children aged about 4-6 unloads them inside the CP. The children present their colorful schoolbags for inspection and run around the vehicle until the soldiers finish inspecting them.
07:30 -Older boys and girls arrive. A woman soldier peeks into the schoolbags. The inspection is quick. The situation is absurd. There are no longer any people waiting on the side of the West Bank.
07:40 – all of them have gone through.
07:50 Reihan-Barta'a CP
Many drivers are waiting in the upper parking lot, on the side of the seamline zone. Those going through say that things are 'ok'. At this time, only a few arrive at the lower parking lot (from the West Bank to the seamline zone) and are swallowed up in the terminal immediately. Our friend, the driver, A. says that the CP near Mavo Dothan is not manned and everybody is free to go through there as they wish.
The drive to the Jalameh CP is long – a truck loaded with sand overturned in Wadi Ara early this morning and they have still not finished clearing up the sand.
09:30 Jalameh CP
There is no pedestrian traffic at this time. Before the vehicle CP, there is a queue of dozens of cars belonging to Arab citizens of Israel who wish to go through to the West Bank.
Aya, the toddler who goes to Rambam for dialysis regularly, is waiting for us with her grandmother and an aunt. Her mother is in the final days of her pregnancy and cannot travel.
'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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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