‘Anin, Mon 10.12.07, Afternoon
15:15 – 17:00This morning at 07:00 we learned that the soldiers refused to let 30 residents of A'anin with permits go through to their lands. They claimed that the A'anin people came late to the CP (until 06:30) and therefore, even though the CP was still open, they could not go through! At 06:40 the CP closed and they were forced to give up a day's work. What name can you give to this – arbitrariness? Closed minds? I think that no concept has been invented to describe this kind of behavior. We phoned the DCO and the Humanitarian Center. On the other side of the line they repeated the claim that the passage is possible only during half an hour. They also claimed that perhaps after all they will open the gate and suggested that the residents wait nearby. At about 08:00 we were told by somebody at the DCO that the soldiers were busy with military activity, and the Palestinians should "wait". (What else do embittered Palestinians have to do with their time? Let them wait.) At 09:00 the people went back home. Perhaps because of the cold, perhaps because they had learned that it is impossible to rely on promises. Perhaps because they were simply fed up. 15:15 A'anin CPThere are different soldiers and they organize the passage of those returning to the village courteously. Three young people about whose documents there was some doubt returned to their homes in the end.
'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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