‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 27.1.11, Morning
0600 Anin checkpoint
It is still rather dark, but people are already passing – only men. 15 men have passed, and one tractor. The civilian administration insists on not renewing passage permits for farmers, the result being that most inhabitants of Anin who have agricultural land on the other side of the separation fence cannot reach it…
The schools are closed now due to the trimester recess, and children come to the checkpoint in order to pass and work with their fathers in the seam zone. But not all children are allowed to pass. When we notice this, we try to explain to the soldiers, apparently a fresh unit, that there is an administrative problem regarding the right of children aged 12 to 16 to pass with their parents' ID card or passage permit, but the soldiers refuse to listen. "It is my right not to speak with you," one of them says, and they show a marked lack of interest in what we saying.
In the absence of a representative of the Liaison & Coordination Administration, Neta asks the soldier not to speak with us but to listen to us, but he stubbornly refuses. Neta calls the Liaison & CoordinationAdministration and asks them to brief the soldiers regarding the registration of children. The father's agricultural passage permit states "including children up to 12 years". Children up to the age of 16 are listed on the parents’ ID card, but the permits list only children up to 12. After age 16 they have to acquire their own ID card and permit.
Strangely, not all Palestinians know this, or they act as if they don't, and they bring their children to the checkpoint in the hope that they would pass.
The procedure regarding passage of children aged 12-16 years accompanied by a parent has not been defined clearly. The Liaison & CoordinationAdministrationrepresentative promises to investigate the matter and return to Neta.
For the child whose passage was refused, it is too late – the checkpoint has been closed and he returns home.
Shaked checkpoint 0700
The checkpoint is open and movement across it is very slow. Due to the school vacation there are much less people who need to pass then every day.
Reihan checkpoint 0740
By this hour most workers employed in industry have gone through. Now those working in shops and garages are arriving. Anyway they all have permits and their passage is fast. There is some movement in the direction of the west bank through the seam zone – women with children are going to visit relatives in Ya'bed or Jenin.
The lanscaping at the Reihan checkpoint is jarring; even the blooming cyclamens don't add any charm to this ugly park, created by the sins of looting, waste and contempt.
Neta from Jalame:
I collected A. and his invalid daughter at the Jalame checkpoint. The girl, aged five and a half, has been treated most of her life at Rambam hospital in Haifa and a rehabilitation center in Jerusalem. Her father is infinitely devoted to her and praises the treatment his daughter receives, as well as the consideration shown at the Jalame checkpoint, but he must make a living. While he has an entry permit to take care of his daughter, he cannot receive a permit to work in Israel, prevented by the Israeli security service. The reason for this, according to him, is that the army killed his cousin and he could possibly seek revenge.
The logic is obviously questionable since he regularly enters Israel for medical purposes, and might as well be employed.
'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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