‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 15.3.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:10 – A'anin Agricultural Checkpoint
The gate of the checkpoint is locked with a padlock and chain. Eight soldiers and one woman soldier attempt to open it, but the lock is stuck. The soldiers are stressed and realize that on the other side people are waiting to cross. Two soldiers crawl through a hole in the fence and go to explain to the people what the problem is. They apologize for the delay. Finally a Hummer arrives and soldiers with long-handled metal shears remove the lock and the checkpoint opens within a few minutes.
06:45 – No one has been allowed through yet. A soldier calls to his comrades to hurry. "They've been waiting here for an hour already." It appears that they have to turn on the computer. After about 10 minutes they begin. About 25 men and women pass through at a normal rate after all their documents and bags are checked. Whoever has a bag filled with items must unpack it and spread it out for inspection. Where? On the ground!
Recently another 30 permits were received. One of the residents of A'anin also told us that representatives of international welfare organizations have come to the village in an attempt to establish an economic infrastructure and set up a sewing room to provide work for the women and another factory for the men.
So far this has only been talked about but there has been no action.
Several young people with invalid permits attempt to cross and are sent home by the soldiers. The woman soldier evidently called about one of the young men and he was refused. At 07:00 several of the people and tractors had still not gone through, but we left.
07:30 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
About 15 people are waiting to cross on the Tura (West Bank) side. They emerge from the inspection room with their belts in their hands. All report that the crossing was without delay. The small children approach the soldier with their schoolbags open. They are used to the routine at the checkpoint.
07:55 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Merchants and workers going to East Barta'a arrive at the lower parking lot and disappear into the terminal. The closure on entry to Israel is not felt here, since few people have permits to work in Israel. The seamstresses and workers at Barta'a have crossed through as usual.
At this hour several tenders with agricultural produce are being checked in the upper parking lot and another two are waiting in the lower parking lot. The drivers ask when our holiday begins and how long it will last. Are they preparing for the bad conditions at the checkpoints when they cross?
We left at 08:20.
'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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