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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 15.1.09, Morning

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Miriam B., Sima S. (reporting)
Jan-15-2009
| Morning

Translation: Devorah K.


06:05 – 06:55, A'anin CP
We arrived at dawn. A white jeep (DCO?) is parked near the soldiers. The gates are open only slightly; about 30 people and five tractors are waiting beyond the outer gate. Two soldiers are inspecting those who are going through. One soldier is standing in the hut with his rifle drawn toward the people going through and an additional soldier is standing in the same way facing the people and the tractors. Many people complain that the agricultural permits are not being renewed. When a tractor goes through someone gets off it to open the gate wide. After that the gate is closed. The gates are very big and the opening is narrow.

07:05-07:55, Tura-Shaked CP
Here too there is a DCO jeep and a military jeep, too. People say that ever since the DCO jeep has been there the inspection procedures are slower. They are teaching the soldiers how to do the inspection and how to look at the permits. We called the DCO to tell them what is happening and then we called again. The soldier there told us that he had already asked them to speed up the inspection. People told us that the day before, the CP was opened very late. At the DCO they said that we should complain to the brigade. Those going through said that a representative from the DCO has been there for four days, and since then everything is delayed. We checked the time: Those going into the inspection pavilion emerged after twenty minutes.

08:05 – 09:50 Barta'a-Reihan CP
It is very cold. There are almost no people. They are arriving very slowly. In the parking lot there is only one pickup truck with goods. While we were at the CP, it did not enter for inspection.
The new person who is selling coffee arrived from Ya'abed and is waiting for customers. One of the drivers tells us that yesterday in the evening they detained him for two hours at the Dothan-Ameriha CP.
The dogs bark and the convoy continues on its way.

  • '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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