‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 16.2.12, Afternoon
Translator: Charles K.
Cows wander on the approach road to the A’anin checkpoint and among the olive trees. They’re apparently from Ein Sahala, the ones that damage the trees belonging to the farmers from A’anin. We called the community police officer from the Shaked settlement. He remembers the business with the cows. He’ll look into it.
15:05 A’anin checkpoint
The checkpoint gates are open, only a few people cross, and two tractors.
One man is detained; apparently he lacks a crossing permit. The soldiers tell him not to worry, and tell us that he’s “clean,” he’ll be able to cross, and make a few calls to whoever they call. Meanwhile the three soldiers from the armored corps and the female MP chat and laugh loudly. The detainee waits, and we also wait.
15:30 The checkpoint gates are locked. The soldiers and all of us are still waiting for the authorization. The detainee can sit in the shed between the fences but he’s already fed up and walks back and forth.
16:10 The answer arrives. He’s clean. They open the gate to A’anin and he goes home, waving thanks to us, even though we didn’t help at all. The soldiers can also leave the checkpoint. The end of a hallucinatory hour.
16:25 Reihan-Barta’a checkpoint, the Palestinian side
The parking lot is full. We park and give a man waiting for us the documents prepared for him by our colleague who deals with removing people from the permit blacklist. He tells us about his family’s troubles. Let’s hope he’s removed from the blacklist, and will at least find it easier to make a living.
16:35 Reihan-Barta’a checkpoint, seam zone side
Laborers come down the fenced corridor and immediately enter the terminal. Someone is repairing the revolving gate at the entrance; traffic in both directions goes through a single revolving gate. The female inspector is efficient, and no line forms. Five detainees sit on a bench in the terminal, seven more wait outside. Two guards stand by the man repairing the revolving gate and instruct the inspector when to open and close the other one. Soon the seven detainees are called inside and the revolving gate has also been fixed.
16:55 On our way to the upper parking lot we have the pleasure of seeing the gates to the vehicle inspection area open wide. Three cars stand there, their hoods open. The drivers close the hoods and drive off.
17:05 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
A few cars cross in both directions. A few people on foot return to the seam zone. We go home.
'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)
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