‘Anin, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Thu 17.1.13, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
06:00-07:35 A’anin checkpoint
The soldiers (reservists) were already at the checkpoint, but opened it only half an hour later. They couldn’t find a pen, searched and searched, and finally asked us and received one as a present. During the time that was wasted we talked to a young man from Umm el Fahm who was waiting in his car for someone. He told us a fascinating story about his grandmother, Helen Leah Leila Warshavsky-Jabarin, a holocaust survivor, who at 14 married an Arab from Umm el Fahm (who “grabbed her…,” she said) and together built a large, many-branched family. Here’s an interviewwith her on Channel 2.
People crossing are inspected in the middle of the checkpoint; the soldiers weren’t careful today and there was confusion, dozens of people pushed and shoved and overflowed the checkpoint, so much so that some of those crossing gave themselves a failing grade in deportment: “We’re the ones who aren’t behaving well today.” It seems that the young people who’d only recently obtained for the first time their own individual crossing permits are the ones inciting the disruption. Some of them approached us asking for help getting permits for the seam zone (there’s an agricultural permit and a separate employment permit) – they’re 17, 18, 20 years old.
So how’d you get through this time?
They laugh.
Others, including two women, ask us to hurry up renewal of their permits, which expire this month. We wrote down numerous iD numbers and phone numbers, even though it’s clear we can’t do much to assist in this matter, but we couldn’t ignore the requests. We’ll inquire…maybe it will help.
Two youths approached the fence from inside the checkpoint, wanting to speak to us. The soldiers, unexpectedly, not only didn’t order them to return to the village but even sent a soldier to escort them (because of the pen?) until they finished asking us to help them obtain permits.
07:37 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Only one Palestinian hurrying at this hour to cross from Tura to the seam zone. Soldiers wandered around the checkpoint with nothing to do; it was empty and quiet. But not peaceful.
07:45 Reihan-Barta’a checkpoint
We passed the large checkpoint which does an excellent job of making the occupation run like clockwork. Six trucks loaded with vegetables, charcoal and other merchandise wait to be inspected and drive on, most of them to eastern Barta’a, capital of the northern seam zone.
08:00 Dothan-Yabed checkpoint
The shifts are changing. Vehicles flow through in both directions, almost without anyone touching them.
The green, pastoral landscape and the fresh air make you almost forget the occupation.
'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)
Ruti TuvalMar-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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