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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 12.5.08, Afternoon

Observers: Riki, Ruti
May-12-2008
| Afternoon
15:00 Aanin Checkpoint
The gate is open. Transit is fast and to the point (about 45 seconds). We are told that this morning was also quick, as Neta has already reported. At 15:30, there was no one left before the gate, but the soldiers are still waiting and not moving to lock up. They do not have the morning lists at hand, and don’t know whether everyone who went out has returned. We leave.

15:40 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
One women crosses towards the West Bank, and a man passing into the Seam Zone tells us that the transit was quick, according to him, by virtue of the white jeep parked between the gates, with a DCO officer sitting in it. He also tells us that there was a considerable delay in opening the gates on Saturday and Sunday, and the small children were late for school. The soldiers allow us to pass through the gates to talk to the DCO officer who denies that there was a problem in opening the gates.

16:10 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
The upper parking lot – a lone car. In the checking hut – four cars and no more waiting. In the lower lot there are also no loaded pick up trucks, only various vehicles and a row of drivers, sitting under the roof and waiting for passengers – labourers returning from work. And indeed, at 16:30, the first begin to arrive. We ascend to the upper sleeve. In the inspection hut – one car. A car coming from the Seam Zone towards the West Bank passes within three minutes. The driver was sent to "rest" in the "garden" but only for a minute. In the entrance to the terminal on the Seam Zone side, only one position is manned – for both directions. Eight people are waiting for one man to pass into the Seam Zone. But here too the transit is fast, and all are through in three minutes. Everyone complains bitterly about the difficulties in the mornings.

17:30 – we leave.

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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.

  • 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).

  • 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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