‘Anin, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Mon 4.10.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
05:50 Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open and the first people are passing through. About 20 men are going into the terminal from the Palestinian side and about 20 seamstresses are sitting on the sidewalk waiting. After a few minutes everyone goes in. More workers and seamstresses arrive. About 150 seamstresses from the West Bank work in three factories in Barta'a. They begin work at 06:00 if they are not held up at the checkpoint.
A, the driver, reports that the Hermesh Checkpoint closes at 09:00 at night and opens again at 07:00 in the morning and that there are no problems. At the Dotan Checkpoint, on the other hand, things have been difficult lately. 8 tenders are waiting in the parking lot and are loaded with merchandise. At 05:45 they are called to drive up to the entrance to the inspection point.
A man tells us that he is married to a woman from East Barta'a where she lives with their children and he is not allowed to visit except for one-time permits to drive a sick child to the hospital. His requests to live with his wife and children have been ignored.
06:05 A'anin Checkpoint
The first farmers have arrived. They tell us that about 50 people came this morning and meanwhile about 200 permits were issued for the olive harvest that will begin next week. We cannot see the people waiting. We hear a loud argument going on. Evidently an elderly woman wanted to send two bottled of olives to her family in the seamline zone and was not permitted to send them. She said that her son and daughter-in-law and daughter were not issued permits. A representative of the Liaison and Coordination Administration says that a lot of permits will be issued in the next few days. A representative also says that elderly people whose families do not receive permits should submit a request to the Liaison and Coordination Administration through the regional council.
The olive harvest will begin on October 10th and the A'anin checkpoint will be open every day but the hours have not yet been determined.
10 children from the Bedouin village below the checkpoint arrive on a donkey and let their "vehicle go and wait to be driven to school.
06:50 Not everyone has gone through yet. An elderly woman complains about the magnometer and says that it is not appropriate for men to check women in this way.
07:15 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
There is traffic in both directions. The school children's names are checked against the list and their school bags are opened. Students have to pass through the inspection booth. A resident of A'anin whose fields are near the checkpoint passes through. For reasons that are not clear he is permitted to go through sometimes and other days he is not allowed despite the fact that he has a permit.
07:55 Hermesh Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open and unmanned.
08:05 – Dotan
The checkpoint is manned and there is traffic in both directions. Soldiers are checking randomly. They are surprised at our arrival and have not heard of "Machsom Watch."
08:30 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
Businesspeople are going to Barta'a and leaving the terminal for the upper parking lot. We went down the sleeve to the entrance to the terminal where they are installing a new turnstile to separate people going in both directions. It has a gate that can be opened when needed.
'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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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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