‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 14.11.10, Afternoon
14.55 – 17.00
A'anin CP, 14.55 – The CP is still closed. It opens at 15.00 on the dot. About thirty people and five loaded tractors enter the CP in perfect order. One of those who have to go through monitors the queue.
Two residents, one of them has already spoken to me about this in the past, tell us that because their trees are close to the security fence, they still haven't received permits to pick olives in those plots. At the time, I spoke to the DCO about this and last week Abbas notified me happily that everybody who asked for a permit, received one, including those who needed permits for groves near the fence. That means that somebody is listening to our requests, even smiling – but nothing is being done.
Shaked CP 15.40– The traffic in the CP is livelier than usual. The atmosphere of holiday eve is palpable. People — women with little children, young men – with loaded bags are returning in cars from the West Bank to the seamline zone. People from the seamline zone are going through to Jenin. The passage in both directions is quick.
Reihan CP – 16.10– There are very many people here, among them many young people, who arrive at the CP in rides from their places of work, mostly from Israel. Some of them left through the Gate of Ephraim (Taibe) this morning. "There, it's war every day," [they say]. Some of the people are returning for the holiday after having spent a longer time in Israel. All of them have packages for the holiday. Tomorrow the Holiday of the Sacrifice ['Id el-Adha] begins, and it lasts for four days, but the CP will be open as usual.
16.20 – One of the turnstiles in the terminal is out of order and because of the crowd returning, people with magnetic cards were sent to go through the vehicle CP. That was quick efficient passage. In the terminal itself, about sixty people with packages are crowding around the turnstile. Two windows are in operation and Sharon (the manager of the CP) is supervising the work.
16.30 – The crowds are gone. Everybody who arrives now enters the terminal immediately. In the meantime, the second turnstile has also been repaired and alll those going through to the West Bank are directed to the terminal. Sharon is there all the
'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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