‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 18.5.09, Morning
06:05 Aanin Checkpoint
The checkpoint only opened at 06:10, with 15 people and a number of tractors waiting.
No DCO representative. The Hummer, for a change, with engine turned off.
A youngster and a child are trying to pass. The child is returned home because he must be accompanied by an adult. The youngster, less than 15 years old, is equipped with a birth certificate and ID of a parent – and passes.
After them, a resident of Aanin, P., says that the two were going out to beg for money at crossroads, instead of to school. The situation at home is so bad, the father is not working.
Transients are not delayed, passage is fast. So people today contend that the soldiers are "okay."
There is a collective problem – of urgent care for olive groves. P. argues that the new plantings must be watered at least once every two weeks, otherwise the plants will die. And there needs to be weeding and pruning for fear of fires. There is no water on the ground, and tractor owners bring from home.
07:05 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The schoolchildren also have a document identifying them as residents of Dahar el Malch. So each midget arrives at the soldier, with open bag, and hands over the document for his scrutiny. Everything done perfectly and politely. The children are also obedient and cooperative. We wonder about the experience of a meeting between a small child and the wielder of a weapon which is at least twice the size of the child.
07:30 – the kindergarten children from Um el Reihan are going a trip to one of the villages. About 25 toddlers accompanied by grandmothers and young, beautiful mothers. Babies clutched to mothers’ bosom and all striding along quite normally as though obeying some law of nature, to the hut for electronic inspection.
On the West Bank side some 20 workers are waiting, among them the principal of Hirbet Bartaa school.
Transit is slow and pressure builds up. We ask the soldiers to let the principal through. The soldiers are pressured by the crowding in both directions, including relatively many vehicles. All in all it is quiet and courteous.
08:10 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
At this hour, the sun scorches every cell in the body. A few drivers wait in the shade. From time to time a taxi arrives and releases workers and merchants to Bartaa. Transit is regular, no visible difficulties. The pickups and taxis are inspected on the upper level which has grown at the expense of the surrounding landscape.
On our way back to the car, we are delayed by a man who says that he was detained three months in a prison near Kfar Sava (which?), and when rekleased they did not return the 500 shekels they had confiscated.
08:40 – we left.
'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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