‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 15.9.11, Morning
6:05 A'anin CP
The gates of the CP are open, the first of those to go through are already walking toward me. I cannot observe the inspection procedure because it is going on between the middle gate the gate in the direction of A'anin on the slope of the hill on which the CP is built and hidden from sight. I try to come closer but an armed second lieutenant makes sure that I don't cross the upper gate. Today relatively many people are going through. They tell me that about 70-80 people are waiting and that last week about 250 permits were distributed. Among those going through there are several children with their parents and a young fellow on a bicycle.
6:40 Children of the extended Bedouin family that lives at the foot of the CP, on the side of the seamline zone, are waiting for a ride to school in Umm Reihan. A couple goes through the CP; the husband is handicapped, and shows his medicines as proof of his weakness. They came with their son of 15 and the son was not allowed to go through. A conversation with a courteous soldier at the DCO elicits the response first that the son presented himself as 16 years old and therefore they asked him for an ID, which he doesn't have yet. The second lieutenant (that talked to me before) claims that from the age of ten (?) a person needs a permit. To my astonishment he says that he has seen dozens of such permits.
7:10 All of the people went through except for the fifteen-year-old boy.
7:20 After some additional discussions with the soldier at the DCO, a discussion between him and the brigade and many telephone calls from the CP to the brigade, the boy is allowed to go through and the gates of the CP are locked. HAPPY END.
7:30 Shaked-Tura CP
I missed the passage of the little children on their way to school at Tura on the West Bank and the passage of the goats to the seamline zone. Older school children are still arriving and go through with the soldiers glancing into their schoolbags. A few cars go through in both directions. About 15 people are waiting near the turnstile at the entrance to the inspection pavilion on their way to the seamline zone.
7:50 Three people remain waiting near the turnstile.
8:00 Reihan-Barta'a, seamline zone side
Taxis are waiting for those coming up from the sleeve, to drive them to work in East Barta'a. They say that the passage in the terminal is 'OK'.
I did not go down to the other side. Muhammed, Ali's father, is already waiting for me. Ali is due to get a bone marrow transplant from his younger brother at the beginning of next week. We went to the Rambam hospital immediately.
We all wish Ali success and a complete recovery – and send our best wishes to the family.
'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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