‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 19.7.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K
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06:10 A’anin checkpoint
An agricultural checkpoint open twice a week to residents of A’anin village with an agricultural or an employment crossing permit. Only Einstein can explain the criteria for granting the permits, and in his absence, only someone from the DCO. Why don’t those who cross year-round have their permits renewed immediately? “Because now we’re introducing permits valid longer than three months; they’ll be valid until the olive harvest (October, approximately), and it’s complicated,” according to what the DCO said two weeks ago. Inhabitants of A’anin cross here to their olive groves in the seam zone; others go elsewhere in the seam zone or to Israel. They must return through this checkpoint by 15:30 the same day. If not? God help us.
A hazy morning, the sun is strong, not terribly hot. The crossing flows, except for one youth who was turned back. A handful of children cross – on an agricultural permit? An employment permit? Some this, some that.
07:00 Dothan/Yabed checkpoint.
A vehicle checkpoint at the junction to Mavo Dothan and the road to Jenin. Passage is unrestricted during most of the day. Soldiers arrive at 07:00; they usually let people through without delays. With nothing to report we made do with the sight of flags for the Dothan district and Israeli flags. The nation as reflected in its banners
On the way to the Dothan checkpoint, in the blooming Dothan Valley, farmers in their tobacco fields weeding and picking ripe leaves to dry. We drove in to see the tobacco leaves hanging to dry on lines. It’s quiet, pastoral.
07:30 Reihan/Barta’a checkpoint
The largest checkpoint in the northwestern West Bank, a terminal with many booths, 
biometric identification, scanners, inspection rooms, an area for inspecting trucks. The usual morning commotion at this hour, people crossing without feeling a human touch or hearing a human voice: they lean on the yellow gate, go through the revolving gate, place their belongings on a table, they go through the scanner, pick up their belongings and are swallowed up in the terminal.
No lines. The parking lot fills, trucks carrying food wait on the road. Where are the regular drivers? Only Mahdi, who owns the stand, welcomes us happily.
07:50
Shaked/Tura checkpoint.
No more people waiting at this hour, the checkpoint operates lazily. All the improvements here make the megalomaniac occupation more ridiculous than efficient. Every day another road sign, traffic light, fence, arrows and what not.
'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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