‘Anin, Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 19.3.09, Afternoon
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Translation L.W
14:35 Jalame Checkpoint
We brought little Aya and her mother from Rambam Hospital to the checkpoint so they could go home to the West Bank. The parking lot is full of cars of Israeli Arabs. Some of them are already returning at this hour from visiting the West Bank. Palestinians working in Israel are beginning to return. There is no pressure at this hour. The gardening works are beginning to compete with those at Reihan Bartaa Checkpoint.
15:15 Aaanin Checkpoint
The last of the farmers who crossed to the Seam Zone this morning are returning to Aanin. According to the checkpoint commander, a lieutenant, 21 men crosse4d. A 13 year old boy was not allowed to cross. We understood that the boy was staying with his grandmother in Um el Reihan (in the Seam Zone) and wanted to return home to Aanin, but came to the checkpoint without a parent and having no ID. The commander says that he does not know whether the boy is really from Aanin, maybe he just wants to cross. The boy does not speak Hebrew. Neither we nor the soldiers speak Arabic. T., the officer, and afterwards with the checkpoint commander, on my phone. Good ending – the soldiers open the checkpoint gates, which were already locked, and the boy crosses. Everything handled pleasantly, but a little difficult to understand why this "clearing up" didn’t happen without our intervention.
15:45 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Little traffic at this hour. Three "unemployed" soldiers sitting in the hut within the checkpoint, with the Israeli flag fluttering above them. The parents of one of the soldiers came to visit. Another family meeting: a woman with her three daughters arrives in a car with Israeli number plates at the hut on the Seam Zone side. The woman is a resident of (Israeli) West Bartaa. Her husband, father of the girls, is from (West Bank) Tura, next to the checkpoint. The mother and daughters have come to meet the grandparents. The emotional encounter takes place in the hut, with heaps of kisses. Meanwhile, the grandfather exploits our presence to say that he has 20 dunam in the Seam Zone, and has the only agricultural permit to cultivate the land. There is a lot of work, and his sons are not allowed to help.
16:20 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
The Palestinian parking lot is full of vehicles waiting to transport workers who will soon return from their jobs. Few are crossing from the West Bank to the Seam Zone. Three cars are being inspected, with the help of a mirror, at the vehicle checkpoint.
16:40 – we move to the sleeve on the Seam Zone side. Workers returning from Israel, many carrying sacks of citrus. They complain about the morning crowding at Taibe Checkpoint (Irtah- Shaarei Ephraim). They say that someone fell and was crushed, and an ambulance was su8mmoned to take him to hospital in Tulkarm. Here the pace is reasonable, and there is no line forming in the sleeve while we are there. The transients would be happy if they could cross here in the mornings on their way to work, as had been the case for a while.
17:00 – we leave the checkpoint. |
'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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