‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 22.10.09, Morning
Many people have already gone through; we are told that 120 people came to the CP in the morning. The eight Bedouin children from the village at the foot of the CP, on the side of the seamline zone, come on donkeys and wait for someone to give them a ride to school in Umm a-Reihan. The children are polished and combed, in stark contrast to the filthy environment of the CP. 06:40 They all went through. During the olive-picking season, the CP opens at 07:00. The soldiers remain in place but the DCO representative leaves and as he passes he tells us that 1600 permits were distributed for the olive-picking season. We tell him that people are complaining that they received permits only for two months. According to him, they can appeal to the DCO in Salem, without any mediation by the Palestinian Coordinating Office, and ask for the permit to be extended for two or three weeks.
A farmer, whose land is especially well-cultivated, tells us that he had difficulties when he wanted to transport stones from A'anin for a fence around his land. The man told us proudly that at the edge of his olive grove he planted Lebanese prickly pears without thorns. He says that on one of the days before he came to the CP with his old father and smoked there. The soldiers let his father go through and detained him for about an hour as punishment for having smoked.
07:05 Shaked-Tura CP
The gates are open and a few dozen people, a few cars and a herd of goats are waiting to go through from the West Bank to the seamline zone. Fropm the seamline zone to the West Bank mostly schoolchildren who study in Tura go through. The pupils are identified on the list that the military policewoman has in her hand.
07:25 Only a few people go through to the West Bank. A relatively large number of people, are still waiting at the entrance to the inspection pavilion on their way to the seamline zone.
07:50 Reihan-Barta'a CP
There is only a little pedestrian traffic; workers and traders from East Barta'a go through in groups. Seven loaded pickup trucks are waiting in the parking lot, four cars are waiting near the vehicle CP on the way to the semline zone, four other cars are waiting near the upper vehicle CP on their way to the West Bank. The first women passengers, with children and toddlers, get out of the car for document inspection.
One man tells us that he is not allowed to go through because two of his sons are in prison. One of them was sentenced to life imprisonment and the second to many years in prison. For a reason that we do not know, the man is not allowed to visit them. Their mother is ill and cannot travel to see them. The man tells us that before his sons were imprisoned he worked in Israel for many years.
'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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