‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 7.5.09, Afternoon
Translation: Devorah K.
15:00 A'anin CPThe gates of the CP are opened. A few people are going through as well as two tractors. For several weeks now, we have not been able to understand why so few go through the CP. People say that there are no permits, but it seems that only a few of those that do have permits are coming to the CP.
15:30 Shaked-Tura CPVehicle and pedestrian traffic in both directions is very thin at this time. The soldiers allow a woman with a baby to go through from the seamline zone to the West Bank without going through the inspection pavilion. The soldiers are friendly, they ask if we are 'observers' and they are not opposed to our entering the area between the gates, letting us observe the inspection of the cars from up close. A soldier tells us that all together three hundred people go through the CP during a day.
16:00 Reihan-Barta'a CPA few cars are waiting for passengers on the side of the seamline zone. Other cars arrive and in front of the entrance to the sleeve that goes down to the terminal, they let out workers returning from their work in Israel or in the seamline zone. A big taxi on the way to the West Bank is inspected. Its passengers are waiting in the open space near the upper vehicle CP.
The Palestinian parking lot is full of cars. Many drivers are waiting for workers coming back from work. A few go through to the seamline zone. One of them was not allowed to take a few bags with new shirts in their original wrappings through the terminal. He tried to argue with the first inspector, in the hut, but it did not help. He came back and gave the shirts to one of the drivers.
16:30 We went down the sleeve to the opening of the terminal on the side of the seamline zone. There is a steady flow of workers, most of them returning from work in Israel. Only one inspection post is open, but there is no queue in the sleeve. People tell us over and over about the horrible queues in Taibe (the Irtach-Shaar Efraim CP) every morning. They say that yesterday, Wednesday, the situation was especially difficult, and three people, among them a woman, were crushed and had to be taken to hospital in ambulances. They say that they saw our colleagues observing in that CP. In the terminal a few people without permits who want to go back to the West Bank are detained to clarify what their situation is. There is also a woman waiting with three children, one of whom is not listed on her ID card. We try to find out the details of this matter in order to help her, but she decides not to go through and goes back to the seamline zone.
17:00 Surprise! Two children are playing on the swing that was put up on the border of the upper parking lot, before they go to the seamline zone. We traveled through Barta'a. The market is full of people at this time of day and the main street almost has a traffic jam.
'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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