‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 28.10.12, Morning
Translation: Devora K.
6:30 A'anin CP
We came here hoping to find the gates open and people going through to olive-picking or to visits to families on this holiday (Id el Adha) but to our astonishment, the gates were locked and there was complete quiet throughout. We called the DCO a few times in the course of the day, they answered courteously but kept telling us over and over again, to call later, when an officer would be able to answer our questions. We could not get any indication of whether the CP would be open today.
6:40 Shaked/ Tura CP
On the way to the CP we saw two women with baskets and tools. They were apparently on their way to picking olives. The CP is open, the soldiers are at their posts, but nobody is going through.
6:45 A herd of goats arrives with an old man who is their shepherd. We greet him, wishing him a happy holiday and he explains that the correct greeting is 'happy new year' (KulA'am wa -intum b'her)
A young boy on a bicycle, a son of the family that lives in the lonely house (stuck between the CP and the Shaked settlement) is turning on the road. He speaks Hebrew which he learned from the soldiers. He says that they will be going back to school on Thursday. He sent his regards to Noa who took care of getting electricity to their house.
A few workers arrive and are picked up by the car that was waiting for them.
7:10 We left.
7:20 Reihan/ Barta'a CP
A few of the CP gates are closed. They tell us that today the gates and the vehicle inspection pavilion open at 8:00.
Families with women and children arrive; there is a queue near the CP. The parking lot is almost empty nor are there any trucks with goods at the sides of the road..
A family carrying long sticks for picking olives crosses the parking lot but does not go through the terminal. Instead they continue in the parking lot toward the west and disappear on the other side of the shed.
8:00 The CP opens and people go through quickly in groups of ten, and afterwards in groups of five. From the other side as well people arrive and all of them crowd on one path. Sometimes it is inconvenient for women to be pushed among those who are waiting. It is not clear why the gate for those coming from the other side does not open.
8:15 All of them have gone through the terminal and up above it is possible to see the first of those emerging from the terminal in the direction of the seamline zone. We leave and pick up A., mother of the girl who is in the Rambam Hospital. She is going to take the place of the father who is taking care of their daughter. At home — the children miss their father and Id el Adha was a very sad holiday for 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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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