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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 2.11.08, Morning

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Ruthy T. and Hanna H.
Nov-02-2008
| Morning
Translation: Devorah K.

A'anin CP – 5.55
The CP opened at 5.30 and when we arrive many workers and women with children are going through to work at olive-picking. On the way to the CP we meet many workers who share their recurring problems with us. One tells us that he is the only one of eight brothers who has a permit for the olive-picking. A second person tells us that his work permit has been taken away because he did not pay a fine for a traffic violation. Another farmer claims that he forgot his food at home, and when his son went out to Umm el Fahm to buy some food he was caught and his work permit was confiscated. In another family the agricultural permit was given only to the relatively old mother and father and was not given to their children. We told all of them to appeal to the head of the DCO at Salem (they did not know his name). But a complaint that was repeated by many is that they are not allowed to take tractors to the groves that are in the wadi. The groves are in the area of the West Bank but the only way to get a tractor to them is through the CP itself. Moreover, between the fences there are also olive trees. Until two years ago they were allowed to pick the olives there, but now they are not allowed to get to the trees. At 6.30 all the workers had gone through and now mostly tractors are going through.

Reihan CP – 6.45
About ten workers are still waiting in the upper parking lot for their rides. They told us that the CP opened at 5.30 and "everything is fine". A taxi with women passengers on their way to the West Bank is inspected for more than ten minutes. Nine pickup trucks with goods are waiting in the Palestinian parking lot. There is very little pedestrian traffic in both directions.

Shaked CP – 7.05
Near the turnstile, there are about thirty people on their way to the seamline zone. Groups of four or five people enter the inspection room and leave it after ten minutes. About twenty people, especially women with children, are going through to the seamline zone without going through the inspection room. Cars and tractors also go through the CP – with the soldiers sending cars through alternating the directions. The inspection of a vehicle takes two minutes. School children go through without any inspection. A teacher arrives at the CP in his car and goes on after ten minutes. A taxi with students on their way to Jenin arrives at the CP at 7.20. The students go through immediately, only their documents are inspected. But the taxi is delayed for more than ten minutes and goes through only after the driver goes into the CP and talks to the soldiers. The teacher also has to get to Jenin and argues with the soldiers, and goes through only at 7.35.  We hope that he will not have many CPs on the way and that he will arrive in time to teach. When we left there were still about twenty people at the turnstile.

Reihan CP – 7.50
Everything is routine – The bus to Jenin is waiting to go through; five pickup trucks with goods are being inspected in the compound and six additional trucks are waiting. Four passenger cars are being inspected in the shed and eight are waiting on the road. We wait for a sick child whose passage through the CP takes fifteen minutes.

  • '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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