‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 27.10.08, Morning
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translated by L.W.
05:10 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
In the upper parking lot vehicles are waiting to transport workers. One man already emerges towards them from the terminal.
Four cars are being checked at the vehicle checkpoint on their way to the Seam Zone.
Pouring rain. A few score people are waiting to cross under the roofing of the lower (Palestinian) parking lot, and they use the opportunity to ask us to get an increase in the size of the roof up to the entrance to the terminal. They approach the gate in tens, and enter in fives.
05:20 – seems that the terminal is blocked. People are compelled to wait ten minutes in the sleeve before entering the building. 06:10 Aanin Checkpoint
People striding along the road from the checkpoint to their fields. They say that 250 people came to the checkpoint, and 100 have already crossed. Many pass on tractor–pulled wagons. Many are put off by the rain (which has stopped meanwhile) and the mud, and decide to go back immediately after passing the checkpoint. Many are asking us to help in getting them agricultural passes for family members.
07:05 – the soldiers lock the gates. Women and children are coming up from the Beduin village between the checkpoint and the settlement of Hinanit. The well–tdressed children go to school in Umm Reichan. 07:15 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Students and schoolchildren cross quickly to the West Bank. Those crossing into the Seam Zone enter in groups of six to the inspection hut, and come out in groups. Traffic of pedestrians and vehicles is comparatively heavy for this checkpoint.
07:40 – a DCO representative arrives at the checkpoint. His first action: to drive us back behind the gate.
08:00 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
People working in East Bartaa are arriving at this hour. They enter the terminal immediately. Tenders are being checked in the compound. Four more are waiting. The cargo includes sacks or recently picked olives.
A Yaabed resident tells us that the water pump there has broken down and the residents are forced to buy water from a tank brought by tractor. The tank comes from Jenin or Baqa el Sharkia. The cost is 100 shekels, and the water last a family 12 days. According to him, Amriha residents who do not have a regular supply of water bring from Baqa el Sharkia, but their price is only 50 shekels because they received a tractor and container as a gift from America.
08:30 – on our way home, they do not open the vehicle checkpoint for us. The security guard asks us to wait while he phones somebody. Two guards arrive with the operations manager (the one who deleted a photo from a visitor’s camera on 15.9.08) who places himself in front of us happily. The guards ask what we brought the Palestinians and what we got from them. We say that we brought used clothes, and received nothing. They check the empty luggage compartment and we drive on. |
'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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Baqa CP
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Baqa CP
The checkpoint is on the Green Line beween Baqa alGharbiya and Nazlat 'isa.
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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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