‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 16.11.09, Morning
6:10 A'anin CP (agricultural CP)
The CP opened at 05:40. Dozens of farmers have gone through, some on a tractor. Five people who went through changed their minds and decided to go back home. They are worried and ask us if they will be allowed to turn back, and maybe we could ask for them. At last, they take heart and cross the CP in the direction of the soldiers at the other end. They wait like well-behaved children. We pass the CP by one or two steps and a soldier leaves his post and marches toward us with his rifle ready. He warns us impertinently, not to dare to cross the CP and to enter "my territory".
06:30 The CP empties out and we leave.
06:55 Shaked-Tura CP
Six male soldiers and one woman soldier climb up to open the CP. The CP is open for traffic. Passage is quick, with no delays in the pavilion. From the direction of the West Bank about thirty people go through within the next half hour. The first of those leaving is an old shepherd. He ties his donkey to a post, calls to the goats behind him — a kind of r-r-r-r-r – and they wait for him obediently in their places. He enters for inspection, emerges after a minute and immediately the herd of goats floods the CP. The shepherd pulls his donkey ahead and steps like a conqueror at the head of a parade.
From the direction of the seamline zone, mostly cars and pickup trucks with goods and people go through. The new shed that we see from afar in Daher-el-Malek is for packing coal.
07:30 the first boy and girl students climb up to the CP and behind them at a distance come the little children.
07:40 Reihan-Barta'a
About seven private cars crowd at the middle CP. Every car that arrives joins the queue until those responsible decide that it is enough, it's crowded. They close the gate of the mobile CP. The drivers wait there for the inspection of their documents. Cars in the direction of the West Bank halt; the passengers get out on the side of the road and wait until the documents are returned and they will be allowed to continue to the West Bank. During all this time, outrageously, Israeli cars go through quickly with a salute at the CP. Israeli time and Palestinian time are not the same.
From the top of the hill above the sleeve to the foot of the three guard posts, one below the other, the soldiers observe what is happening below with their rifles at the ready. There are another two posts "on the ground". Maybe there are some more that we cannot see. So much security is present out here!
In the CP people are going through all the time, especially men, without any delays. There are no queues in the sleeve and they are not kept from leaving. The occupation machine is well-oiled.
08:00 We leave for Jalameh to pick up Aya to take her to the Rambam Hospital.
'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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