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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 13.11.08, Morning

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Passage Restrictions
Observers: Lea R., Anna N.S.
Nov-13-2008
| Morning
Translation: Devorah K.

06:10 A'anin CP
The CP opened on time and about 40 people have already gone through. Last night there was a lot of rain and it seems that only a small number of farmers are going out to their lands.
The passage goes on at reasonable speed, and no unusual events have been observed. The beggar child tries to manipulate us so that we would give him some money. He is not going to school because there is no money. He is hungry because there is no money, and so on. Lea gives him ten Shekels and he pretends to be insulted and asks for more.
Among the olive trees are scattered some clay roof tiles that were not allowed to go through to A'anin.
06:25 After about twenty men and women went through, including tractors, we left.

06:45 Reihan-New Barta'a CP
As we went down to the terminal through the sleeve we met the last people leaving to go to work. We heard about the appropriation of agricultural permits, refusals for no reason – hardships and suffering with no end. There are only a few people going through on a day like this, from here to there. One man tells us that today his son, an eleven–year–old, was not allowed to go through the CP with him. For the last few days, he has been going through with him to the olive grove because there was no school, or the school day was shortened because they observed Arafat's birthday. The father prefers to have his son spend time with him rather than just running around in the streets. Why did they not allow him through today? Because the father does not have the child's birth certificate with him. The father claims that he was not told that he had to have the document, and asked them to allow him to go through with the child for the last time. All our efforts at persuading the people in the DCO failed. The eleven–year–old child was sent back to the CP on a cold and wet day, so that he had to get back home to Ya'abed by himself. An eleven–year–old little boy, alone. In the meantime, the people from the security firm do not allow Lea to go down to the lower parking lot claiming that we have abused their trust in us several times. And although we were forbidden to do this, we bought food and olive oil from the Palestinians. When we talk to the person in charge, Sharon, we found a man angry and hurt, claiming that he lost faith with us because a couple of women were caught buying food and oil two days before. He filed a complaint against us with the CP ('passages' in the cleaned up language) Administration, and the rest is known from our separate report. He agreed to pass on the clothes that we brought with us for distribution.

07:50 Shaked-Tura CP
There are long queues of cars on both sides of the CP and workers are leaving for work. A man stops us and tells us that he dug two water holes in his olive grove in Tura, and discovered after a few days that he had to stop them up  because he had not gotten a permit to dig them. He has to take care of the matter in Kedumim-Beth El first.
08:15 We left in order to take two people — a father and his son from Jenin – to the Rambam Hospital

  • '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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