‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 20.1.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
14:55: A'anin Checkpoint
We arrived together with the soldiers. About 15 men, two women, and a boy, plus a donkey and four tractors, have been waiting to cross from the seam zone to their homes in the village. The soldiers open the gates. Today they do not have a computer, but instead use a written list. An elderly woman is detained because she committed the serious offense of sleeping at her son's house in the seam zone. People complain that their permits will expire in the coming days and new ones have not yet been issued.
15:20: Everyone, including the woman who "committed an offense," have crossed. Another tractor arrives.
15:35 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
There is a lot of traffic in both directions. A tow truck crosses to the West Bank and the soldiers and we watch the attraction. We pick up three hitchhikers at the junction near the Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint. They work in the settlement of Hinanit and live in Tura. They are not permitted to cross at the checkpoint near their village and must travel to the Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint, which is far away. They tell us that everyone who works in the settlements of Shaked and Hinanit and in the Shahak Industrial Park must cross at Reihan Checkpoint and then take two taxis to work and back: one from Tura to Yaabed and one from Yaabed to Reihan and back again. They return by hitchhiking. It costs each of them NIS 40 a day.
16:05 Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The Palestinian parking lot is filled with improvised transit vehicles waiting to take workers back home. We waited for a man from Kafin to arrive and sign a power of attorney authorization. He arrived in his car and stopped at the gate and walked to the checkpoint. We don't understand why they don't open the gate. We did not feel any tension following the shooting of a Palestinian near the Mevo Dotan Checkpoint and the settlement of Dotan. People asked us if we knew anything and we asked people if they had heard what happened but they did not know.
16:40 Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The workers are returning home and there is only one window open, but there is no waiting line. Four detainees are waiting on the bench to have their cases dealt with. A few people, mostly young families, are returning from the West Bank to the seamline zone. A couple lovely with twin girls arrives. The proud father says that there were triplets, but the third is at home.
17:00 We left the checkpoint. As we went up the sleeve we met workers coming back from work.
'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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