‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 11.11.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:45 A'anin Checkpoint
It is raining hard. The Bedouin children from the family who lives below the checkpoint are waiting for their ride to school in Um Reihan. We asked the soldiers if anyone from the village of A`anin had come through the checkpoint on such a rainy morning. "What do you think?" Asked a female soldier rudely, and demanded that we keep away from the gate.
A young man returns from the seamline zone after going through this morning, hesitates for a moment, and then approaches the soldiers to go back after considering the bad weather. A large new Transit collects the children.
07:00 Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The same Transit which brought the children from A'anin arrives carrying adults, perhaps students or teachers. The small children arrive in a blue Transit and cross the checkpoint along the road, rather than the sidewalk and through the sleeve as all the others do. They are not checked. The driver of the Transit goes to be checked, comes back, his vehicle is checked casually, and he continues on his way to the school in Tura. The school principal manages to restart his infamous car again and drives away.
07:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
We entered the Palestinian parking lot which was completely full, and gave away some of the bags of used clothing we had brought to Hadi, who runs the refreshment stand. Hadi supports his parents and his brother, after his father was injured in an accident. People pass through the gate with heartbreaking obedience, in groups of five. A dozen trucks loaded with fresh bunches of radishes are waiting on the road. We drive on to Emricha and give more bags of used clothing to two families, who kiss us gratefully.
08:00 – Dotan Yaabed Checkpoint
Apparently the checkpoint is being manned by reservists. They approach us and ask us if we need help. The traffic is heavier going east towards Area A, while traffic going west is checked quickly and continues on its way.
08:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Some of the trucks have already driven up to be checked. Workers are being picked up quickly in taxis coming from Barta'a. We pick up Hani, a little boy about two years old, who is recuperating from a rare form of cancer, to be examined at Rambam Hospital. His father has no permanent permit and receives a permit for only one day at a time. Recently the child was running a fever and needed to taken urgently to the hospital, but his father was not permitted to go because he had no permit. We heard that people conducting illegal business with hospitals in Israel had caused the authorities to be stricter and to withhold permits from innocent people who need them.
'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)
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