‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 28.11.10, Afternoon
15:30-17:45
15:30 A'anin CP
A military policewoman with a laptop and three malesoldiers are having a conversation near the concrete cube. Most of the peoplehave already gone through. A few workers arrive and go through quickly. From adistance, somebody calls out the number he had in the morning. A soldier arrivesto make certain that I do not step past the line of the gate. No, it's none ofmy business how many people went through this morning. Olive-pickingpro
cedure? He doesn't know. Perhaps in another two weeks. The dirt near thegate? It's not ours. A sergeant arrives: You are interfering with my soldiers' carrying out their task; I'll be forced to close the CP. So – I step back andthe gate remains open. A tractor goes through in two minutes. By 15:55 13workers have gone through.
16:00 Shaked-Tura CP
A private car with a woman driver who knows a greatdeal about how the CP works is now being inspected and a Transit arrives at thegate. Nine women dressed elegantly with small children get out of it. They arefrom Umm Reihan on their way to a cousin in Tura. On the other side a number ofcars are waiting. At 16:08 a car arrives; a woman and a little girl get out andwalk up for inspection. The driver waits to be called, but the soldiers, amongthem three women soldiers, are in no hurry to call him. From their post, you canhear their happy conversation. The driver is called only after I call thesoldiers' attention to him. At 16:18, the driver returns from inspection. Now they inspect the car as well as an additional car on the other side. Fourwomen of the nine are still waiting in front of the door to the inspectionroom.
16:35 Reihan-Barta'a CP
In the parking lot there are only cars that arrivefor a moment, their passengers get out and hurry to the terminal, and theyreturn to the place they came from. In addition to the yellow CP that was set uprecently at the exit from the inspection compound for cars, there is now a newCP only a few meters distant from it. At the entrance to the terminal abouttwenty people are standing. The turnstile allows different numbers of people togo through: 9, 3 (!), 7. Four young men are sitting on the bench for those whohave stayed in Israel illegally. A guard calls them from on high: "Guys, comehere!" The "guys" go there. At 16:55 many workers arrive. "Do something." A callto Sharon (the one in charge of the CP) and within a few minutes an additionalwindow is opened for the convenience of those who are waiting. I suggestedto the workers that they write down Sharon's number and call him when there is aneed. That made them laugh. Sharon arrives with a security guard and with A. from the DCO. They manage to put things in order near the turnstile. Sharonthinks that the number of people did not really require a second window. Heis supposed to provide only for the residents of Barta'a. Now he is forced totransfer one of the CP workers here from vehicle inspection. Since there is no alternative, he allows the workers who went throughIrtach in the morning, to return through his CP. According to him, theiremployers "throw" them off here and he cannot simply block them. Some of theworkers listen to him, understand what he is saying, and they are embarrassed. Iam, too. Sharon is very careful about cleanliness. He himself picks up dirt, scolds whoever throws down a cigarette butt and waits until somebody is sent tosweep the rest of the butts. A person arrives at 17:30 with a broom and adust pan and is given detailed instructions by the man in charge. At 17:45Transits with many workers arrive. I hope that the second post is still inoperation.
'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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