‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 18.6.12, Morning
06:05 07:20 Farming checkpoint A'aneen
Residents of A'aneen wait at the lower car park to cross over into the Seam Line zone. We can't see them but do hear their voices.
An iron bar at the center of the post blocks passage. A soldier holding a pointed gun towards those waiting is joined by a second soldier.
Inspection is extremely slow and takes place near the exit gate.
A local resident arrives at the site, approaches the female soldier sitting on the top of the elevated concrete block and hands her a piece of paper. She registers him in her notes and he proceeds on his way out of the checkpoint while she yells:"Tomer, send them in one by one". Tomer does just that and when she is through with one she yells again:"Tomer, send one", Tomer complies and this goes on.
In between they find time to chat leisurely, who care about the locals.
06:15 – About 30-40 people are waiting, many youngsters, and parents with children on their summer break.
06:30 – Another 25 people, as well as a few tractors, are still waiting.
06:50 – The soldiers talk about a certain military action. A military vehicle enters and exits a few minutes later. Soldiers are sent to close the gates, provoking an immediate angry, loud reaction from those waiting at the lower car park. We call the DCO and the Battalion alerting them that the gate is being closed while many people still await passage, and they order soldiers to let everyone through. About 20 people who were going to be sent back home, and a few tractors, cross over quickly into the Seam Line zone.
Residents ask us to come and observe on Thursdays mornings and afternoons.
07:30 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
From the direction of the West Bank people cross over into the Seam Line zone, and in the other direction mostly students are waiting (going to the University at Jenin). An elderly woman on her way to see a doctor in the West Bank is worries that she might not be back home before the gates close. She consults with us . This is a moment that symbolizes the injustice of occupation. The owner of the land asks us, the occupier, if the soldiers would still be here when she wishes to return home. And how should she adapt to the occupation regulations?
A group of female teachers followed by a group of male teachers come out of the inspection cabin on their way to supervise exams (matriculations?) at Barta'a or elsewhere at the Seam Line zone.
G. our dear acquaintance once again crosses over from Tura. This normally very calm person is angry; He received the number 20 upon arrival and it has taken him an hour to get inside. He asks the soldier, why does it have to be so?
Another person from the village of Meissar, concludes :"Look, the entire West Bank is a big ghetto, You who've lived in ghettoes are now doing it to us…. Ghetto for the body and ghetto for the soul".
08:00-08:30 The new Barta'a checkpoint – Reihan –
At this time about 8 trucks and pickup trucks wait on the road. The car park is full. A woman from Barta'a and her small daughter and another relative wait to go to Jenin. The driver would leave only after he fills up his car.
Passage is routine, fast, no problems were observed. Occupation from heaven.
'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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