‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 17.12.07, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
06:05-09:30 06:05 A'anin CP
The gates are open and the people are going through. This morning the inspections are being carried out above, on the road near the gate on the side of the seamline zone. This may be because of the amount of mud near the middle gate.
06:30 The soldiers close the gate on the A'anin side. The people who arrived before 06:30 but have not yet gone through are waiting between that gate and the one in the middle. The CP commander, a Second Lieutenant, tells us that those who came late would not be allowed to go through.
People tell us that four people have arrived after the gate was locked.
07:10 A man and two young boys are waiting. The officer and another soldier go to open the gate in order to send the fellow who does not have a permit back to A'anin. We ask the officer to let the four 'latecomers' go through. He says that it is impossible, it is against the instructions. When the officer comes back, he tells us that those four were no longer waiting on the other side of the gate.
All together 40 people and a few tractors went through this morning.
07:20: Shaked-Tura CP
The gates are open, adults go through via the inspection pavilion. Pupils go through in the ordinary way. This morning, they are not inspecting the schoolbags of the little children. A soldier comes up to us and asks if the CP is working satisfactorily. He agrees with us that the fence and the CP are not in place. Going on, he tells us that in the afternoon the children throw stones at the fence and the soldiers do not know if they should chase them into the village.
08:00 Reihan-Barta'a CP
In the upper parking lot, on the side of the seamline zone, drivers are waiting for people to go through. We go down into the sleeve. A security guard on the observation tower above it tells us that the water flowing on the other side of the sleeve is rain water and not sewage.
People coming up in the sleeve tell us that they were put into rooms and the passage took half an hour. At this time, only one window for inspecting documents is operating. There is no queue near the window. The delay is inside.
08:20 In the lower parking lot, the Palestinian lot, many drivers are waiting for passengers. Six loaded pickup trucks are awaiting inspection. Four are in the inspection compound.
There is relatively a lot of pedestrian traffic in both directions; among the people there are families with children who are dressed up for the holiday. The feeling of festivity of the approaching Holiday of the Sacrifice is already in the air.
Our friends, the drivers A. and M. tell us about the traffic jam at the Mavo Dothan-Amriha CP. During the last three days, they have been inspecting every driver and every car meticulously, even if they drive back and forth and go through there several times in the course of the day. This morning there was a queue of 20-30 cars. They claim that the conditions in the afternoon are even worse, and people going through the Reihan-Barta'a CP to the West Bank are forced to wait for their drives for a long time. Before the holiday more people than usual are going through and the delay at the Mavo-Dothan – Amriha CP is unbearable.
08:45 The inspection of the four pickup trucks has come to an end and an additional quartet has entered the compound.09:30 We leave.
Eight pickup trucks are waiting for inspection at this time. There are no private cars at the vehicle CP.
The construction of the imitation well in the CP compound has been completed. There is a pail with a rope on the top. What moving nostalgia! What terrible taste!
We drive via Barta'a. The market on the main street is more crowded than usual. The Eid el Adha (Holiday of the Sacrifice) is almost here.
'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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