‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 4.6.09, Morning
Translation: Bracha
The village of A’anin is obscured by the heavy fog in the area. The soldiers are busy opening the three gates at the checkpoint. About 30 people including a few women with a lot of children are waiting next to the middle gate. Summer vacation has begun and children accompany their parents who are going out to the olive groves. One of the people complains again about the herd of cows from Ein Sahala that is grazing in the olive groves and destroying them. He says that the herd does not come on Mondays and Thursdays when [the checkpoint is open and] farmers can get to the groves to guard them.
06:35 – The fog disappears and the gates are locked again. F., the vice president of the A’anin Council arrives at his olive grove with two of his children and a tractor loaded with cans of water. He has planted new trees and needs to water them. We accept his invitation to have coffee on his land. F. says that after the demonstration on May 16th about 70 additional agricultural permits were received but most were given to women who cannot cross the checkpoint and work alone anyway.
07:20 – Shaked-Tura
There is constant traffic of cars in two directions. About 20 people are crowded next to the turnstile at the entrance to the inspection booth on the West Bank side before they pass through to the seamline zone. We are told that the school year has ended but that matriculation examinations are still taking place. The hours that the checkpoint is open are posted on the gate on the side of the seamline zone: 07:00 – 10:00, 12:00 – 19:30. There is also an announcement in Arabic saying that drivers must stop in front of the white line that has recently been painted on the road and wait for the soldier to call them, and that pedestrians must enter the inspection booth one at a time.
Reihan-Barta’a
08:05 Vehicles are waiting in the upper parking lot to transport workers to East Barta’a. The workers arrive at the lower parking lot on the Palestinian side in small groups and disappear into the terminal. Only two vans are waiting to be checked.
08:30 Tami receives a gift of cooked stuffed vegetables from her friend F. We declare them when we leave. At the checkpoint the security vehicle calls two more security guards and they politely send us to the new vehicle inspection area. We now have the opportunity to park in the new inspection shed where two other cars are being checked. The vans are being checked in the fenced yard next to the shed. Our boxes were taken for inspection in the area where the tenders stood. The drivers are waiting in the booth between the two checking areas. After several minutes the boxes of food were returned to us and we left. The five vans that were checked also left. The two that were in the parking lot were called to drive up to the inspection area.
'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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