‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 1.9.08, Morning
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05:00 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
About 100 men and women wait in the parking lot before the gate. A DCO man and three civilians (from the security company and/or the Defence Ministry Crossings Unit) are watching them from behind the fence. The men are entering in groups of five, and are not really letting the women in. The civilians say that it is not their job to organize the Palestinian queue.
05:20 – all swallowed by the terminal and whoever comes now goes straight in. Six loaded pick ups are already waiting for inspection that will begin at 06:00. Three cars are being checked at the lower vehicle checkpoint. A Border Police car arrives and disgorges three Palestinians by the vehicle checkpoint, who then go on into the West Bank. 05:35 – the terminal is blocked. People passing through the gate are compelled to wait in the entry sleeve. 05:45 – scores of men waiting in the sleeve to pass into the Seam Zone. In the other direction passage is quick.
A man who works in Hadera tells us that he cannot return in a number 27 bus, which goes to Mevo Dotan, because the stop at Reihan Checkpoint is beyond the vehicle checkpoint. He asks for a stop to be placed by the parking lot at the entrance to the sleeve.
06:15 Aanin Checkpoint
Three tractors pass us on the road to the checkpoint. One driver calls from the distance to say that "today is good." Two men wait longer than usual near the soldiers. In addition to agricultural passes, they holdwork and sleepover permits for Israel, and are making sure that the soldiers record everything, so as to avoid problems about returning through here on a different day. A man tells us that his permit has expired today, but he already asked a month ago to renew it and it has not yet come. According to him, olive picking starts in two weeks.
06:55 – a soldier makes sure that we leave the area of the fence. Says that 50 men have crossed and more are waiting.
Thirty people wait beyond the fence. The permanent residents of the Seam Zone are exempt from the inspection hut when there is pressure. To our surprise there are no schoolchildren. Seems that because of Ramadan the Palestinian Authority is on the winter clock as of today.
07:35 – two well–turned–out children arrive for kindergarten and school in a family car. They pass by the soldiers and the father goes on his way after making sure that the children have crossed safely.
Little pedestrian and car traffic. Only two pickups wait at this hour. They tell us that 38 loaded trucks cross in a day from the West Bank to the Seam Zone, and only two in the other direction. Inspection of the pickups ends at 14:30.
08:10 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
We popped over again to see the children going to school. They pass quickly without a satchel check.
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'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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