‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 27.8.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:10 – A'anin Agricultural Checkpoint
About 50 people – mostly young – are waiting inside the checkpoint by the middle gate. Many have received permits for the first time, for the next three to six months. Recently more than 100 permits have been issued.
Two soldiers are standing facing groups of ten or more people – this time without loaded and cocked weapons, as we have been accustomed to seeing. The crew is new, working slowly. Wahel, a representative of the Liaison and Coordination Administration, is present. The registration is done in a routine manner using the computer.
During our observation several young people were sent back to the village because their permits had expired. They claimed that they had applied for new permits early, but the paperwork had not yet been completed and they had attempted to cross anyway, without success. The question is, why can't permits be renewed before they expire? For the workers, who never know whether their permits will be reissued, this is a tiring and tense time, since they cannot plan their lives or livelihood until they know whether they will receive a new permit.
At 07:00 there were only a few people waiting, and we left.
07:16 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
A soldier is attempting to break the lock to the gate of the pedestrian sleeve, unsuccessfully. Apparently the lock has been out of order for several days, because people who are headed for the West Bankare going straight to the center of the checkpoint without being stopped. About 20 people are waiting to enter the seamline zone and several cars are waiting to enter the West Bank. The checks in the inspection booth are routine. School will begin again on September 2nd, and meanwhile there are few children going to the West Bank. They ignore us when we ask where they are going, but we later learn that they are going to sit for their examinations again because they did not pass the first time.
07:40– Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Seven cars are waiting to cross to the West Bank. The first is a yellow car with many passengers. They wait with their children to be checked before they can cross. We walk forward and are greeted by the security guards with "good morning" as they move the yellow gate. We were surprised to find a lot of people waiting to enter the terminal from the lower parking lot, which was unusual for this hour of the day. They nevertheless entered quickly and only had to wait when the terminal became full. A civilian car which waited to cross the checkpoint was forced to wait until the last of the workers entered the terminal, and the driver began honking impatiently for the inspector in the booth to open the gate. Men exiting the terminal are attempting to refasten their belts while they walk. They report that everything is going as usual, and that luckily the holidays are over and things can return to normal again.
We left at 08:45.
'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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