‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 14.5.12, Morning
Translating Dvora K.
06:10 A'anin Agricultural CP
More than forty people are waiting to go through the gate in the middle of the CP. The soldiers are examining people with bags, inspecting every small part of the tractor: "Those are watermelon seeds", says a young man to the woman soldier. "What are these sticks?" she asks another fellow."They are for short vines", he replies.
From a distance we see that they are not letting people transfer two medium sized bags and a container of salted cheese on a tractor. The owner of the tractor tries to convince the soldiers to let him go through. It doesn't work. Afterwards, he says, "Those are vine leaves, a kilo, half a kilo, why does it matter?'
Neither do we understand why they made a fuss over that.
The cows are still going crazy in the agricultural areas of the residents of A'anin. Perhaps this time it is only on days when they cannot leave A'anin. The farmers discover the consequences only on the next day. "They broke vines in my vineyard<" says M. who arrives this time without a tractor in order to save on fuel.
The woman who has a permit to work in the seamline zone tries to go through with her two children, and she is refused as she was last week. We are forced to explain to her, again, the occupier's stand in this matter, and she argues with us, as if we are responsible for controlling her life.
07:00 Tura ('Shaked') CP
The CP is going through a serious 'facelift'. An expansion and beautifying with fences and metal margins; as if it is intended for it never to retreat from here. The development work has not yet been completed and heavy equipment is standing in wait.
Vehicles are permitted to go through to the West Bank and to come in the other direction. People adapt quickly to the changes and go through the new sleeve. All together a few dozen people have gone through from each side in half an hour.
A tall soldier tells us, in relation to the occupation, ' Your generation created the problem and did not solve it; and we are suffering from it now." He is absolutely right.
07:40 New Barta'a CP
The parking lot is filling up all the time; people leave for work, the passage is quick. Those who go through with equipment have to have an additional inspection.
Seven vehicles and pickup trucks are on the road waiting to be called for inspection in addition to those in the parking lot. There is nothing to relieve the boredom of the occupation routine here, except for the change in the flourishing landscape around us.
08:00 We leave.
'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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