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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 6.10.08, Afternoon

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Children Health Problems
Observers: Anna N. S., Neta J. (reporting)
Oct-06-2008
| Afternoon
Translation: Devorah K.

14:10 Shaked-Tura CP
On the way to the CP there is a colorful notice: IN TAL MENASHE, WE ARE BUILDING THE THIRD PHASE, EIGHT TWO-FAMILY COTTAGES.
The last of the pupils are returning from school in Tura to their homes in Daher-el-Malek.
A woman settler, with a head-covering and her Palestinian worker, come to help in transporting a tractor from the West Bank to the seamline zone. There is very little traffic, vehicles or pedestrians, at this hour of the day.

14:55 A'anin CP
Six tractors are waiting at the locked gate. A few dozen people are waiting in the shade of the olive treess. A pastoral scene, if only there were no fences, no rolls of barbed wire, no gates and soldiers...
15:00 – The gates open; the people organize themselves into a queue according to a list that one of them made earlier. He is also responsible for opening the gate only a little for people to go through; then he opens it wide for a tractor and immediately closes it after that.
15:50 On the list that the man holds there are 53 names. Until now 33 of the people listed have gone through. We did not wait for the last 20 to go through.
From the DCO we learned that the olive-picking season will begin on Sunday, 12/ 10/2008 and until the end of the season the CP will be open every day. There will also be a change in opening hours.

16:05 Reihan-Barta'a CP
Workers arrive in groups in cars their employers supply and go down into the terminal sleeve. No pressure is felt. The Palestinian parking lot is full of cars waiting for passengers. There are no longer any pickup trucks with goods at this time of day.
A child who has leukemia, with a mask on his mouth and nose, who's being treated at the Rambam Hospital, arrives at the CP with his mother and uncle. The uncle has a permit to go through with his car and he insists that the child and his mother, residents of Ya'abed, should go through with him and should not be forced to enter the terminal. They are afraid that if the child enters the terminal, full of people, he might catch some illness. After consultation, the security guards allow the child and his mother to go through in the uncle's car.
16:40 There is lively pedestrian traffic in both directions. Those arriving from the West Bank enter the terminal immediately.

We leave the CP.

  • '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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