‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 21.11.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:15 A'anin Agricultural Checkpoint
The olive harvest is still in progress. Dozens of workers have already crossed through the far gate. Perhaps it is coincidence that they have no bags.
Ripe persimmons are scattered on the ground between the fences. The person who brought them was not allowed to bring them through the checkpoint. Evidently persimmons and bags of children's clothing constitute danger to the security of the State of Israel and the IDF, the guardians, are not taking any chances. We collected as much of the fruit as we could and gave it to passers-by.
At 07:10 the yellow van came to take the Bedouin children to school in Um-A Reihan. We left while there were still a few people at the checkpoint and the soldiers will close it after the last person has gone through.
07:15 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Most of the people are going from the West Bank towards the seamline zone. The children from the "lone house" pass through on a horse-drawn wagon on their way to school. Students and mothers with young children cross through to the West Bank and have to wade in the mud that has accumulated by the stone wall. Another barbed wire fence and gate have been added in the direction of the West Bank. From here it is difficult to see what their purpose is. The occupation runs like a well-oiled machine. As they say, everything is OK.
07:40 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
A lot of workers arrive, on their way to work in Barta'a. Bored drivers are waiting for a job to do. Several people were not allowed to go through to Barta'a and were sent back. A man with belts for sale in Barta'a is sent back, puts them down somewhere, and goes back to the terminal. Another man arrives with a container of olive oil for his restaurant in Barta'a, but according to the authorities it is a wholesale quantity and he is not allowed to bring it. Now he has to go to Salem and get a permit to bring it through – wasting the entire work day as well as money that will not be returned. A doctor with a bag of medicines who has a permit is sent back. A man with pocketbooks that he could not sell wants to return them to the store in Barta'a is also sent back, but after S.'s intervention they are both allowed through.
6 vans are waiting on the road to be checked.
We left at 08:30.
'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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