‘Anin, Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Tue 9.11.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:10 – 'Anin Checkpoint
People are walking down the road from the checkpoint to their olive groves. They tell us that members of their families have still not received permits to work in the olive harvest (which is now over). Children from the Bedouin village are waiting for their ride to school at Um A-Reihan. The driver tells us that the parents have to pay for the ride.
At 016:45 an officer arrives from the Liaison and Coordination Administration arrives after all the people have already gone through. He claims to have come from Tibeh Romena Checkpoint near Um Al Fahem where only a half a dozen people passed through. The seamline zone there is very small and there are no olive trees there. All the farmers were called to appear at the checkpoint and about 20 people came. The farmers were asked by the Liaison and Coordination Administration to plant something on their land in the seamline zone. Before the gates were locked the soldiers swept the ground between the two gates.
07:00 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
There is a lot of traffic in both directions. The young school children arrived all piled into one car. Their bags are briefly checked and they quickly run outside again. The older children are checked a little more thoroughly and the soldiers go through their school bags.
A resident of Tura in the West bank who owns a donkey and wagon wants to bring prunings from his olive trees through the checkpoint to heat his home and has not been permitted to bring it through for ten days. We were told by the Liaison and Coordination Administration that the man is not talking about a wagon and donkey, but a large wagon pulled by a tractor, and that the wood is bound for the charcoal factory in the West bank. When we say that we saw the tractor and wagon (without the wood) we were told that the man should contact the Liaison and Coordination Administration and make arrangements with an officer named Yusuf to bring the wood across. We hope he succeeds.
07:50 – Dotan Checkpoint
On our way to Dotan Checkpoint we saw a lot of cars waiting for passengers in the upper parking lot at Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint. The gates on the road are always locked and about ten cars that could not drive up to the road were parked on the sides of the gate. A sergeant asked us to move our car so that he would not have to guard us and finally reported that he had more urgent business. There is little traffic in either direction at this hour
08:05 – Hermesh Checkpoint
The Checkpoint is open and unmanned. There is little traffic at this time.
08:20 Reihan – Barta'a CheckpointThe lower parking lot is filled with cars. There is a relaxed atmosphere under the shed, with concrete benches, plastic chairs, and an impromptu kiosk and corner for people to pray. The checkpoint security company is taking care to clean and care for this area as well.
Workers and businessmen from East Barta'a arrive in groups and disappear into the terminal. A few people cross to the West bank.
At 09:00 we leave the checkpoint. Six loaded tenders are waiting in front of the checkpoint and three more are waiting in the parking lot. We returned via Barta'a and the market, hoping for a better future. Only the red and white signs differentiate between the Palestinian side and the Israeli side.
'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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