‘Anin, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Sun 14.10.12, Morning
Translation Dvora k.
5:30 A'anin
The olive-picking season provided an opportunity to do our observation at sunrise, always wonderful in A'anin. The gates are open, those who have permits are going through one by one. We entered and went to the inner gate where the inspection is done without anyone stopping us. At the time of opening, a man, H., from the DCO was also there, and we had a friendly conversation, despite differences of opinion. In his assessment, about a hundred people were waiting to go out. H. knew that after the Holiday of the Sacrifice ('Id el Adha?) at the end of next week, olive-picking will be at the peak and the number of people with permits will grow a great deal. He says that the permit policy is not at all strict, but the army does not interfere in the affairs of the GSS or the police.
6:00 Shaked/Tura
Like us, the man from the DCO hurried to get to the opening of the CP which, normally, not during the olive-picking season, opens only at 7:00.
Traffic leaving for the seamline zone is thin and flowing. It is expected to increase later when school children and university students; the banker and the teacher and all the regular clients will be going through. A herd of goats goes through now. We still wonder what happens this year to the little school children who used to arrive with the driver Y., and how and where do the Bedoui children go. At 6:40 we left for Barta'a and Ya'abed.
6:50 Reihan / Barta'a
We passed the Barta'a CP and on the road we counted nine loaded trucks waiting for inspection. Apart from that we had the impression that the lower parking lot still is not full and traffic leaving for the seamline zone was flowing easily.
7:00 Mavo-Dothan / Ya'abed
The CP is being re-organized and on both sides there are long queues. Two soldiers leave what they are doing in order 'to banish' us. They ask us to move our car which, they say, is parked 'exactly in the way'. They claim that their role is to make sure that the children's bus which comes down at this time from Mevo Dothan will not be hit by stones. The bus passed and we stayed put as did the cars which, for some reason, are inspected this morning on the way to Jenin. When we felt that the inspection was unnecessary, and was being done to make an impression on us, we left.
7:30 We passed the Barta'a CP again. Now eleven trucks were waiting on the road; the lower parking lot was full, but traffic was flowing. We left.
'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)
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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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