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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 22.9.08, Afternoon

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Anna N. S., Neta J. (reporting)
Sep-22-2008
| Afternoon
Translation: Devorah K.
14:10 -16:30

14:10 Shaked-Tura CP
There is very little vehicle and pedestrian traffic. According to the CP commander, since the morning about 70 residents of the seamline zone have gone through and about 100 people from the West Bank to the seamline zone. He says that the soldiers know that because of the holiday ('Id el Fitr), there will be many gifts and goods for personal use.
Parents and their daughter from Daher el-Marlek go through to Tura on the West Bank in the father's taxi. The girl lost her glasses in school. The father and the child go through in the car. The mother gets out for inspection. After about 20 minutes they return. They have found the glasses!

14:55 A'anin CP
10 tractors are waiting to return to A'anin. The carts attached to the tractors are loaded with second–hand plastic furniture and some more old junk. About 30 people are waiting in the shade of the olive trees. The soldiers are already in their places. At 15:00, they open the CP.
A young fellow has a list with 43 names. The people do not stand in an orderly queue and there is a tumult. After about 10 minutes, the soldiers close the gate. The fellow has some success in organizing the queue and the soldiers open the gate. In their hands they have their own list and they note those who left in the morning and are now returning. A soldier reminds the people to remember the number that they received in the morning. That will shorten the time needed to find their names on the lists.
A young fellow wants to take a computer with him. They do not allow it; it is possible only from Reihan. The fellow waits until everybody goes through and makes sure that he is listed as having gone through, so that his agricultural permit will not be confiscated next time.
15:50 – The passage has been completed. The soldiers lock the gate. We go on to the Reihan-Barta'a CP and we take the fellow with the computer with us.

16:00 Reihan-Barta'a CP
The fellow with the computer leaves the terminal after 10 minutes. Now he has to take a taxi to Jenin and after that from Jenin to A'anin – a waste of time and money.
The last pickup trucks on their way to the seamline zone are being inspected.
The Palestinian parking lot is almost completely full of cars. All of them are waiting for workers who are returning from their jobs in Israel and in the seamline zone. In the meantime they are using the time for prayers in the shed, with a Sheikh from Ya'abed leading them.
A woman is waiting to go through to the seamline zone. Her children are waiting for her at home and she is under pressure. Because of some technical problem they do not let her in and, of course, do not explain anything to her.

16:20 The problem has been solved; the woman and another man are allowed to enter.
Workers go through to the Palestinian parking lot in groups. There is no pressure at this time. We are told that at the Mavo Dothan – Amariha CP there are often problems and they ask for all kinds of authorizations that do not exist at all. The problems usually arise when new soldiers are there . Our informant says that there are no additional CPs on the way to Jenin or to TulKarm.

14:30 We leave the CP. Workers continue to arrive in their rides to the upper sleeve.

  • '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.

  • 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).

  • 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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