‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 17.5.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:10 – A'anin checkpoint
On our way to the checkpoint se saw a herd of cows that had invaded the olive groves belonging to the residents of A'anin. They were eating the young branches of the trees and the saplings and trampling the rest. People say that they know the owner of the cows who is from Ein Sahala. They are trapped behind the fence and are helpless to do anything. They have complained but to no avail.
One farmer drives them out and brings back a bunch of onions that were pulled out from among the trees as proof. The cows are damaging the vegetables that are planted between the rows as well. The cows cross into the neighboring almond grove after being driven out of the olive grove.
All of our attempts to complain and help the farmers don't help. They are told to complain at the Liaison and Coordination Administration in Jenin but they do nothing.
07:20 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Most of the people coming through are schoolchildren. The young ones are smiling and happy while the older ones are serious and solemn-faced – a distinct contrast.
About 15 small children nearly arrive at the checkpoint on foot when they see the taxi that they usually arrive in enter the village and they run back to ride in it. They pass through one by one showing their schoolbags to the soldier and cross quickly.
08:00 – Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
Coming back on the "apartheid" road we saw a taxi being checked. The passengers get out and put their magnetic cards through the machine. There are stacks of eggs underneath the shelter, and taxi drivers are waiting around for nothing. We reminisce about the days when we could enjoy a cup of coffee and cookies when the checkpoint was more lively.The sleeve is filled with people going to work – mostly teachers. It seems that people are moving through the terminal quickly.
A young man who has a work permit and whose employer is waiting in Barta'a is refused entry because today the biometer does not recognize him. He is stressed because if he does not get to work he will lose the day. We speak with Sharon, the manager of the checkpoint and try to persuade him to let the young man through so that he will not miss his workday. He sends a soldier and two civilians, none of whom are willing to let the man through, claiming he has been technically blacklisted. The young man refuses to run the examination again for fear that his permit will be cancelled. At the Liaison and Coordination Administration in Tul Karem they suggest that the young man come and they will check him.
Two more young men are sent back because the biometer does not work. A, the driver, says that last week several dozen people were sent back for the same reason.
We left at 08:45.
'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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