‘Anin, Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 16.4.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
06:05 A'anin CP
It is raining and cold. Three farmers emerge from the terminal. They say that this morning only about ten people arrived. The few who came to the CP go through, two of them on their tractors. People are hesitant, do not know if it makes sense to go to their land in this weather. Even if they decide to come back once they get there, they will have to wait until 15:00, when the CP opens in the afternoon. Two pedestrians and a tractorist decide to go back. The soldier asks the tractorist, who went through about ten minutes ago, where he spent the morning. The tractorist answers that he spent it here, that he is the seventh on the list. The soldier checks and confirms this. He goes through. 06:30. The gates are locked. As noted, they will open again at 15:00 and remain open until 15:30. That is how it is twice a week, only on Mondays and Thursdays. On the other days of the week, the farmers cannot go to their land.
06:45 Shaked-Tura CP
We get to the CP together with the soldiers. The soldiers organize things. They open at 07:00. Three diligent pupils are waiting near the gate on the side of the seamline zone. The soldiers do not see them until we call them to their attention, and the pupils are called to the inspection pavilion. The little children cannot open the heavy iron door. A soldier opens it for them. There is a steady stream of cars and pedestrians in both directions at this time. All the pedestrians, in both directions, are examined in the pavilion. This includes a woman student who is on her way to her studies with a baby in her arms and two five year old little girls dressed like dolls with their schoolbags on their backs.
07:50 Reihan-Barta'a CP
There are very few pedestrians at this time of day. The workers and the seamstresses who get up early have already gone through and the tradesmen of Barta'a have not arrived yet. Seven cars are waiting at the vehicle CP to go through to the seamline zone. Six loaded pickup trucks are waiting in the parking lot.
09:00 Jalameh CP
The closure is still on. The parking lot, which lately has been full of cars belonging to Arab citizens of Israel, is empty and locked. The mother of Aya (the toddler who has a kidney disease), is walking out of the CP in the rain with Ayah in her arms. They go through even though there is a closure, as a 'humanitarian case'. We drive them to the Rambam hospital for the regular dialysis.
'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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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