‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 16.8.10, Morning
Bracha B.A.
06:05 – A'anin Checkpoint
No more than 20 people – some on a tractor – are waiting to cross. There were additional requests for permits but no more have been issued. The routine is the same. People are checked quickly. A soldier greets everyone politely with "good morning" and asks about the Ramadan fast. A young man is standing next to the inspection booth, waiting for an answer from the Liaison and Coordination Administration. He asked for a new permit but it has not been received and in the end he’s been sent home. Why is it his fault that the request has not yet been received because of bureaucracy? He has land and wants to go to work. Who are these people who prevent him from going to work his own land?
06:45 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet. At this hour the heat is already oppressive. Only a few people are arriving – either because of the heat or because of Ramadan. People return bleary – eyed from the night shift at Shahak. A carton of eggs has been under the shed for a long time. A driver expecting nothing to happen is washing a yellow van. Tenders are being checked and drivers sit in the shade on the other side. The intense heat is having an impact on everyone. We meet M., who tells us about the kindergarten in the area. He drives the children and hopes for the best.
06:55 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
Soldiers arrive to open the checkpoint at 07:00 and after about 10 minutes all the gates are open. More people are coming from the West Bank than in the opposite direction. Passage is orderly and fast. Two "Hummers arrive via the security road and join the half dozen soldiers who are already there .About 20 people and a herd of goats are waiting to cross. A woman arrives with a grandmother who proudly shows us a five–days-old infant. We are told about a soldier from Gilad who is the commander that was involved in harassing the Bedouin. The local people tell us that he speaks rudely to them and has been abusive. "Evidently he thinks he is still in Russia."
We left at 07:30.
'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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