‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 1.12.09, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
The little girl Aya’s permit from the West Bank is no longer valid and today we did not go to Jalame to take her to the hospital in Haifa. We hope that tomorrow she will be able to travel to Rambam Hospital for her dialysis treatments again.
This was a short shift since according to the Liaison and Coordination Administration the olive harvest is over and there is no longer any need to tend the olive groves and therefore the agricultural checkpoint at A’anin is only open on Mondays and Thursdays.
It was a routine shift without any exceptional events. The occupation continues and all is routine.
Shaked Checkpoint – 16:00
There are only a few people crossing, but there is constant movement of cars and pedestrians in both directions. Two large concrete blocks decorated with an |X framed in yellow are standing in the middle of the road inside the checkpoint. A regular car can drive by the blocks. The reason for them (which is hard to believe) is to prevent Jewish drivers from entering the checkpoint which has happened before. A resident of Um Reihan told us that today there is a good crew [of soldiers] and that there is another crew that is not good.
Reihan Checkpoint – 16:30-17:40
When we drove down to the lower parking lot we saw a long line of cars d coming from the West Bank to the seamline zone waiting to be checked. The lower parking lot was completely full and there is a steady flow of people coming out of the terminal returning home to the West Bank. Taxi drivers are waiting to take passengers to Ya’abed, Jenin, and Arabeh, as well as our friend who takes people to the bridge and back.
When we went up to the upper parking lot we no longer saw the vehicles waiting: evidently they had already driven in to be checked. We did not see when they left. We went down the sleeve and here, too, we saw a steady flow of people returning to the West Bank. People came out quickly and evidently people only had to show their I.D. cards. |Workers went in with bags of fruit. Someone entered with a microwave and another with a dismantled bicycle with the wheels separated from the frame, etc. A few people came out in the opposite direction going towards the seamline zone. When we arrived there was a detainee sitting on the bench, but when the line goes through he is called and goes through as well.
It should be noted that only one window is open and despite this there were no delays. One strange thing happened: From somewhere in the terminal we heard someone calling |Sharon. We couldn’t find out who was calling or why.
'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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