‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Thu 9.6.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
15:25 – A'anin Checkpoint
We arrived late at the checkpoint after getting caught in a traffic jam coming out of Haifa. We hurried to the checkpoint to meet a farmer from A'anin who had complained about someone cutting down his olive trees. Apparently he did not arrive at the checkpoint because he was at another meeting to discuss the same issue somewhere else. Hopefully the perpetrators will be caught and the farmer compensated. When we arrived the soldiers were sitting and resting and everyone had already crossed. One person was checked and crossed the checkpoint.
15:40 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The soldiers are resting here as well and there is little traffic. No one is going towards the West Bank and only a few people are going to the seamline zone. A woman and three children crosses the checkpoint. All are dressed in holiday clothes and are perhaps going to a wedding in Um-A-Reihan.
16:05 – Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
The wedding season has evidently arrived. Two girls in holiday dress are playing on the playground equipment next to the parking lot. Their mothers are waiting on the bench for their car which is still being checked. A minibus, tender, two cars and a truck with a crane are waiting next to the vehicle inspection facility going in the direction of the West Bank. All except the crane truck are filled with adults and children in festive clothing. The women are clapping their hands when they see us and share their happiness. Workers are descending the sleeve into the terminal. The first ones enter immediately, but in another 15 minutes a line begins to form and the shift changes.
At 16:35 only one window is open, a line is forming and it is hot and people are tired and angry. One person who is a resident of A'anin tells us about the olive trees that were cut down. We call Sharon, the head of the facility, and another window opens and the line moves more quickly. Occasionally women dressed in holiday clothes cross through and are given the right of way. A young woman carrying a large bouquet of flowers tells us that they are on the way to a wedding. .Students are crossing in the opposite direction from the West Bank to the seamline zone.
17:00 – Two detainees are still waiting on the bench. There is no waiting line. We left the checkpoint.
'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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