‘Anin, Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 17.11.09, Afternoon
Jalame CP
We dropped off little Aya and her mother returning from ambulatory treatment at Rambam Hospital and watched the passage of vehicles awaiting inspection on their way back to Israel. Israeli Arabs traveling back from Jenin, where they went shopping, visiting relations and spending time. It appeared as natural as any border crossing between two peaceful entities. The drivers were presenting their documents at one inspection point and proceeded to one of several baggage inspection booths.
A security guard, who thought we were interested only in the Palestinians, obligingly explained the procedure and told us that not all the cars were actually inspected. Neta remarked that yesterday a Palestinian called her on his way back from work in Israel, complaining that there was a large crowd waiting to pass through and only one booth – out of the ten existing booths – was functioning. His response was that the security staff was allocated according to actual needs. The size of the staff at the CP was determined by the Ministry of Defense and at present they directed more inspectors to the vehicle checking point rather than to the terminal.
While we were there, we saw few pedestrians and indeed, only one open booth. But on our way to 'Anin we already noticed many contractors' vehicles driving their workmen to the CP. The crowding would then start.
'Anin CP
The gate opened exactly at 15:30 and the Palestinians started passing through one by one: only when one completed the procedure would the next one approach. Each one was being inspected by five soldiers who appeared to be equipped with a laptop. Each was checked in the name list, requested to open up his coat and even lift his shirt. We wonder: All this on the way back to the village? Some 40 persons passed through, 3 women, 4 tractors. No apparent problem.
Shaked CP
The traffic was going through at a normal pace in both directions. A boy returning from a friend, a small herd of goats back from the pasture in the seamline zone to Tura. Everything seemed quiet. The CP commander inquired about our impression of the CP.
Riehan CP
We walked to the lower parking lot, which was crowded by cars and their drivers seeking passengers. A young man holding a work permit for Barta'a inquired on how he would be able to obtain a one-day entrance permit into Israel. We went up to the upper parking lot and returned via the line (the 'sleeve'). The passage was proceeding well. Two booths were functioning and that really made the difference. We noticed that whenever a woman approached the line, the men would move aside and give her priority.
We noticed three detainees, but they were allowed through shortly thereafter.
No unusual occurrences. The Palestinians wanted to credit us, but we saw no justification thereof.
'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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