‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 3.9.09, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
A’anin, 06:10-06:30
Before we left about 35 people crossed the checkpoint, including children with their parents who had come to help in the orchards. There were also young people and several tractors and two women. People were checked and listed on a form. The computerized method does not work here. A. from the Liaison and Coordination Administration is here to help.
We observed nothing extraordinary. Routine is the name of the day – ensuring quiet and order in the management of the occupation. People are used to this and do not complain, do not disturb, do nothing, and are swallowed up within the subjugation as if it were understood that this is the way things are and even smile, say a non-committal “good morning” and even ask about the kids at home. How very pleasant and very frightening! There is a fire burning in a barrel at the center of the checkpoint. This is the only decoration in this desolate place.
06:30-07:15 – New |Barta’a Checkpoint (Reihan)
Several trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables and eggs are waiting for the checks to begin. There are private cars in the center of the checkpoint. Drivers are waiting to have their documents checked before their cars are allowed to be checked above. From the other side a family dressed in holiday clothes is on the way to the West Bank and waiting to have their documents checked before they continue on their way.
Most of the people going to the seamline zone to work or to school are teachers. People continue to enter, pushing open the steel gate and disappearing into the terminal. Several dozen young people entered during the time we were observing.
07:25 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The students are dressed up and are walking in the direction of the checkpoint. Among them are little children going to first grade. They look excited, and are dressed up and their hair beautifully combed. Crossing inside the booth for workers on their way to work is slow as usual, At this time there are about 30 people waiting in line. Three women students are waiting to cross into the West Bank and Jenin for about 10 minutes- their taxi is waiting…a representative of the Liaison and Coordination Administration conducts the entire scene and calls in order to clarify and solve any difficulties.
The children cross through be means of a special permit that has been given ahead of time by representatives of the settlement: an I.D. photo of their parents and a permit showing they are registered for school in the West Bank, as well as personal details and a photo. These children’s bags are not checked.
In a conversation with A., representative of the Liaison and Coordination Administration, he said that 55 students of various ages received crossing permits and that 11 teachers received crossing permits following a meeting with representatives of the settlement and the school authorities, who ambivalently approved these excellent arrangements.
We left at 08:10.
'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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