‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 29.10.09, Morning
06:10 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
Workers who have passed the checkpoint and are waiting for a ride to work in the Seam Zone say that "today is okay."
People come in small groups to the Palestinian parking lot, and are swallowed into the terminal after the woman security guard at the entrance asks them in Arabic what their packages contain. A few pass in the opposite direction – from the West Bank to the seam Zone.
Three pickups loaded with vegetables and oil cans are waiting for inspection. Three private cars are also waiting.
06:40 Aanin Checkpoint
Few people are crossing. About 20 are still waiting to pass at this hour. One man complains that they wouldn’t let him take olive oil containers through for sale in the Seam Zone.
The eight children from the Bedouin village alongside the checkpoint arrive for transport to school in Um e-Reihan. The children are nice and well-dressed for this filthy checkpoint.
07:00 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The gates are open and a few pedestrians have already crossed. Beyond the fence, perhaps 30 men, a few cars and a disciplined flock of goats are waiting to enter the Seam Zone. The first car passes into the West Bank.
Children arrive and go through without inspection to Tura school (West Bank). Student women enter through the examination hut. A man tells us that yesterday afternoon the transit was particularly slow, and he waited from 16:45 till 18:00.
A man runs past us towards the checkpoint, and calls "have you heard of a wedding without bridegroom?" He says that his sister’s wedding is supposed to be today, and he’ll be back immediately to tell us about it. After a lively discussion with a DCO representative, which we saw from the distance but obviously did not overhear, he runs back to his car and drives off quickly. Forgot to tell us… Didn’t want to tell us?
About an hour later, as we were on our way home, peace activist Buma phoned and wanted to consult about it. He asked us to help the families if possible. We gave him the phone number of Salem DCO Head – Lt. Col. Adel. Through the day it became clear that the groom is security blacklisted, and even though he submitted a request a month ago to come to the bride’s home in the Seam Zone (after the pre-nuptial ceremonies), they have only now told him that he is blacklisted. So today’s ceremony will be for women only, and tomorrow he must come to Um el Reihan to take the bride to the marriage ceremony in his village, which is near Jenin. We still don’t know how it ended. We hope they married with good fortune…
'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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