‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 2.7.12, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
15:20 – A'anin Agricultural Checkpoint
There are practically no people coming back through the checkpoint. A tractor is sitting in the middle of the checkpoint in the hot sun. The soldier tells us that the driver has entered Israel illegally. When he turns around and waves we see that it is the redheaded man who comes through here all the time. Is he an illegal? The soldier refuses to give us details and we assume that he did not come back in time according to the occupation clock. The man continues on to A'anin after 20 minutes, and we will try and find out what his offence was.
16:00 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
Each time we arrive here there's something new added to the checkpoint. In addition to a stoplight there is now a foolish-looking crosswalk and red and white stripes on the curb signifying "no parking"! At this hour there is little traffic to or from the West Bank, but that doesn't stop the impressive renovation going on here. Perhaps tomorrow they will issue fines to anyone crossing against the light or failing to cross at the crosswalk! There is no end to the money being wasted on this unnecessary place.
16:30 – Dotan Checkpoint on the Yaabed – Jenin Road
On our way to the Dotan Checkpoint we counted eight trucks and vans, waiting on the burning hot road to be checked. At the Dotan Checkpoint soldiers are busy waving their arms directing cars here and there and back again. Drivers coming from Jenin are asked to present ID cards and vehicle registrations. A taxi driver is delayed for a few minutes until his personal details are checked. When we asked a resident of Yaabed if the checkpoint at the village had been taken down, he said that soldiers had come to the village and told people, in a patronizing manner, that if they behaved well the punishment would be removed. The residents responded like children after receiving punishment, and promised not to throw rocks any more, and the checkpoint was taken down. In my opinion this is an expression of how much the occupation is assimilated; the man acted as if these events were the law of nature.
16:50 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The eight trucks we saw on the way are still waiting on the road. We declare the olive oil that we received and go through the routine check. A young woman on her way to work from Nablus to Barta'a is in the upper parking lot behind the fence waiting for someone to check her car. One of the workers says it will take 15 minutes. The woman is very angry and demands that they hurry up and let her out of the cage. This evil fenced-in area is part of the vehicle inspection facility. It is hard to see her standing there, like an caged animal. We wait 20 minutes until she is let out.
A lot of people are coming back from work to the West Bank. More than 100 people have crossed in the last half hour. Six detainees are waiting on the bench at the entrance to the terminal. After some time five of them are called inside and after some more time the sixth is handed a letter by a security guard summoning him to the Liaison and Coordination Administration in Salem.
We left at 17:20.
'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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