‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 22.12.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
14:15 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The main parking lot and the auxiliary parking lot near the road are completely full. The seamstresses who work in East Barta'a are returning from work. The car which will take them back to Yaabed is parked on the road since there is no room in the parking lot. They are pleased to see us – we haven't met for a long time. Agricultural workers are also coming back at this time. Some of them are carrying bags of oranges that they brought from work. Among those waiting on the road is a mother with her small twin daughters, who look like twin dolls. On our way to A'anin we met someone we knew, a resident of A'anin, who'd asked us for a ride to the checkpoint. The man had spent the night at his sister's in Um a-Reihan and was concerned he would not be allowed to return through A'anin checkpoint. He asked us to take him to Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint if that happened.
15:00 A'anin Checkpoint
About 30 people as well as three tractors are already waiting in front of the checkpoint gate. The soldiers open the gates and people begin to cross. The military policewoman has no computer today and she is checking people's IDs against her list. She is also checking the tractors. Two soldiers are securing her. An elderly woman and man are detained. After a few minutes they are allowed to return to their homes. Our hitchhiker is also briefly detained and then allowed through.
15:30More people arrive, including the tractor driver, who's been allowed through last week at Shaked-Tura, when his tractor broke down (See report from 15.12.11). They were promised that they would be able to cross at Shaked-Tura on the days when A'anin checkpoint was closed. Unfortunately, he and 25 other farmers never received this piece of information. Tomorrow he will try to cross there and we will check to see what happens.
15:50 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
There is very little traffic at this hour. Several women cross, including a child in a pram – a rare sight here.
16:00– There is no need to check if our hitchhiker would be allowed to cross since he has already received permission, so we return to Haifa instead to celebrate Christmas and Hanukah.
'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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