‘Anin, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Thu 28.6.12, Afternoon
15:10 A'anin CP
We arrived ten minutes after opening hour. The gates are open, there are soldiers in the area of the CP; there are no people waiting and there are no people going through. Perhaps they have already gone through and the late-comers have not yet arrived.
15:30 Reihan-Barta'a, Palestinian side
We rushed in with a fellow whom we brought from Rambam hospital to the Reihan-Barta'a CP. We let him get off, as we had to, at the opening of the sleeve up above and we went down to the lower parking lot, the Palestinian one, which was completely full. Yellow taxis waited to drive those who had gone to work in the seamline zone in the morning. The parking lot at the top of the road was also completely full. The workers have not yet arrived, and at this time only a few people have gone through. Our hitch-hiker went through the terminal quite quickly and was surprised to find us on the other side of the terminal. He invited us for coffee to his home in Kabatiya, but unfortunately we couldn't accept his invitation.
15:45 Dothan (Ya'abed) CP
The CP is manned; the soldiers stop the cars arriving from Jenin or Ya'abed for a quick inspection. For some reason they also stop some of the cars going into the Palestinian Authority. On our way back to the Reihan-Barta'a CP, we saw many more cars than usual parked on both sides of the concrete blocks which block cars from coming from the north and the south and getting on to the road which leads to the Reihan CP. In order to avoid a long journey around, the drivers leave the vehicles here and go to the CP on foot or they catch a taxi.
16:15 Reihan-Barta'a, on the side of the seamline zone.
Three cars are waiting to go through to the West Bank. Women and girls, dressed up in sparkling dresses, get out of one of them. At this time the workers are already beginning to flow into the CP, and they enter the terminal in fives. Four detainees are sitting on a bench at the opening of the terminal. There is already a queue. It is hot, everybody is tired, and we call Sharon, the man in charge of the CP. He checks the cameras in his office which cover the entire CP. He says that 30-40 people do not make a real queue, and still, he immediately begins to call people in larger groups and the queue disappears. One person says that it is a pity we didn't arrive in the morning, because this week the passage is especially slow.
17:05: There is no queue. There are three detainees on the bench in the terminal. We leave.
'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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