‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 27.12.12, Afternoon
Translation: dvora K.
14:55 A'anin CP
About 20 men and two women go through from the seamline zone, returning to the village. Three young men are detained. We hear a military policewoman asking one of them (dressed in a red sweatshirt) where he's been in the morning. We do not hear his answer. A few more farmers arrive and go through. The person who cleans the CPs, a resident of Tura, collects papers and remains of garbage on the side of the seamline zone and between the fences. He ties the garbage bag and asks who is in charge of the CP, is careful to tell the soldiers not to forget the bag when they return to the base. He explains to us that he does both his work and theirs.
15:30 The military policewoman lets the person with the red sweatshirt go. He decides to go through to the seamline zone (in the afternoon the traffic is only in the direction of the village of A'anin) and two soldiers run after him and send him to A'anin.
15:50 There are still two detainees. I try to find out what the problem is. The policewoman answers curtly, "There is no problem. Mind your own business and I'll mind mine."
16:10 The two detainees are allowed to go on their way, to A'anin. We also leave.
16:20 Shaked-Tura CP
There is some traffic – vehicles and pedestrians – from the seamline zone to the West Bank. A few go through to the seamline zone.
16:40 Reihan-Barta'a CP, Seamline Zone side
Two little girls are on the see-saw near the parking lot. Nice. With the workers we go down into the sleeve that leads to the terminal. About 30 people crowd near the turnstile at the entrance on their way back to the West Bank settlements. Three young girls and a little boy are sitting on the detainee bench. After some time we understood why. They were waiting for their mother with her veil and gloves.
Two inspection windows are open and that is really not enough. There are at least 30 -40 people near the turnstile at the entrance to the terminal at almost any given minute. Every person who goes through in the opposite direction to that of the workers, among them a student, a family, etc, from the West Bank to the seamline zone, delays the workers on their way to the West Bank. The people are tired and angry. One of them tells us that 'there is no such thing as more hate than here." He also says "a state of sons of bitches'. Sometimes they let people in in fives, sometimes in tens, and sometimes as many as the area in front of the windows allows. The system is unclear. There is a queue all the time.
17:10 They opened another window for those who have passes to work in Israel. They also opened a second turnstile at the entrance for them. That immediately shortens the queue, but after a short time they go back to two windows, and the queue gets longer.
17:25 For a short time, they opened a third window for those with passes to work in Israel. The window is closed again and the queue gets longer.
18:00 At long last there is no queue. We climb up again in the sleeve. Some more workers are going down to the terminal We do not go back to see the condition of the queue. We want to go home by now.
'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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