‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 14.3.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
A'anin Checkpoint: 14:50
People have already arrived and the soldiers are present. A fourteen-year-old asks us to help him get his own permit. Evidently this is a sign of growing up.
From 15:00 to 15:30: about 20 men, four women, three young men, two donkeys and one foal, and four tractors. Two of the tractors were sent back to unload their cargo of bags of sawdust before they can cross. A female soldier who opened the gate for them to pass explained that they are allowed to bring only two bags of sawdust. A phone call to the Liaison and Coordination Administration, to explain that the sawdust is used for bedding for livestock, did not help at all. One tractor driver pulls over while the other goes back to his fields to leave six of the eight bags. Meanwhile a white military vehicle arrives, with Major N. He asks, is everything is OK? and we tell him that it is not and explain about the sawdust. He tells the drivers that they can bring it and meanwhile the other driver returns after leaving his six bags in the field. We worry that the gate would be closed before he can go back and get them, but N. assures us that the gates will be kept open by Major G. until he returns.
At 15:40 the tractor driver returns and he goes through after the bags are checked and he shakes hands with the soldiers. Meanwhile we speak with N. and are surprised to hear his understanding views of the situation.
15:50 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
A herd of goats returns from the seamline zone accompanied by a shepherd on a donkey. The shepherd goes to be checked while the orderly herd waits for him beside the fence. There is little traffic at this hour. Two students return from the West Bank and four cars wait to cross from the seamline zone to the West Bank.
16:10 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
A few people arrive from the seamline zone. Workers walk down the sleeve on their way to the terminal returning to their villages in the West Bank. One of them tells us that he works in Hadera and has to go through the crowded Irtah Checkpoint in the morning.
There is no line and no detainees. One of the workers tells us that this is because we are there, but we are not sure we deserve the credit.
At 16:40 we walk back up the sleeve to our car and workers ask if there is a line. We tell them there is none and hope that there will not be one.
'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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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