‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 20.12.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
A’anin checkpoint 06:25-06:40
A rainy dawn at A’anin.
We arrived five minutes before the checkpoint closed. One of those crossing told us that about 30 people went through to the seam zone, despite the rain. He also said his wife can’t get a crossing permit to the seam zone even thought his father has land trapped there between the fence and the Green Line. “We went to Salem (the DCO) this week; they said she’s not my wife.” We took identifying information to find out more about this Rashomon.
Shaked/Tura checkpoint 06:50-07:25
A relatively small checkpoint that handles a small population, so it’s not clear why it’s necessary to fill it with endless fences, poles, sheds, roofs, traffic signs, road markings and a traffic light, unless someone’s benefitting from it (not necessarily Israel’s security).
We arrived at the same time as the soldiers who hurried to open all the gates and let people cross ten minutes before the official opening time. While we were there they weren’t able to open the lock to the fenced corridor for pedestrians, so today all crossed through the middle of the checkpoint. The strike of Palestinian teachers reduced significantly the number of people crossing this morning to the West Bank.
Reihan checkpoint 07:35-08:15
Had this been a standard border crossing between the state of Israel and the state of Palestine we would undoubtedly have been amazed at the tremendous investment in landscaping and care of the area. But it’s an occupied area, stolen from the local inhabitants, and the bucket hanging above the fake well won’t help.
Very heavy traffic of people and vehicles, along with intermittently heavy rain. Most traffic heads toward the seam zone and Barta’a. Hadi’s stand is bustling; the rain brings him customers. His brother is helping him today, benefitting from the teachers’ strike. A local youth asks for help; he wants to get to the Saint John ophthalmic hospital in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem but can’t obtain a crossing permit. We gave him Dalya Bassa’s phone number; she’s the coordinator for health matters at the humanitarian office.
At the end of the shift Neta took Amjad and his son (West bank residents)to an ).appointment at Rambam Hospital in Haifa (Israel
'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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