‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 28.6.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:05 – A'anin Checkpoint
The first people are crossing and there are about 25 more people waiting. There is a concrete shelter where people can stand while being checked, but the soldiers prefer to stand far away from us. The permits of about 30 farmers are due to expire and the Liaison and Coordination Administration has informed them that there is no need to submit requests because they will be automatically renewed. A man tells us that his 70-year-old parents who own land made an agreement with people from Um-a-Reihan that they would work their land and receive half of the yield as payment. But after the olives are pressed into oil they cannot transport the oil to the family in A'anin across the checkpoint. We were told that since we intervened there have been no herds of cows or goats in the olives groves. At the end of our previous shift we left the checkpoint because we were certain that a man would be allowed to bring some used mattresses across, but it turned out that he was not allowed through and had to go home via Reihan. The soldier in charge tells us that this is not so but I am not convinced.
07:00 Reihan checkpoint
A. from Um A-Reihan in the seamline zone says that many residents of the village have married people in the West Bank and that family visits and obtaining permits have become difficult. A resident of Zibda tells us about his sister who married a man from Barta'a and had a son. She received a permit stating that she was a permanent resident of Barta'a, but after she went to her father's house for a visit she was prevented from going back to Barta'a to her home. People complained about crowding in the terminal and that only one window was operating but after a half hour things began to move faster.
Three people – one of them elderly – have been waiting for an hour after returning from Israel. When we arrive they receive their documents back again. Two taxis are waiting for permission to continue on their way on the Palestinian road. Meanwhile the passengers get out and wait in the hot sun until the check is completed. A., the driver, has not come to work for three days. His car went out of control on the downhill road and broke down and he is at home sick and unhappy.
08:10 – Tura Checkpoint
Everything is routine. A car goes through in seven minutes and we are met by a couple of soldiers whose job seems to be to keep an eye on us. A woman greets us with "good morning" and the soldier asks ironically why she doesn't greet him as well. We tell him that when he grows older and leaves the army he will understand why.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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