‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 20.10.09, Afternoon
First we brought Ali and his mother to Reihan Checkpoint, then we were early in reaching Aanin (14:50). At this hour two tractors and a number of workers are waiting and remind us that the gate will only open at 15:30. We drove on to Shaked Checkpoint.
15:10 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is almost deserted. The bored soldiers suggest to us to "come in the morning when there is chaos." Two male soldiers and a female finally show interest in something we said, and they come closer for a conversation. Seems they had never heard of the Green Line. They are interested in the military service of our children. They ask whether we lecture, and one of them notes favorably our members from Kibbutz Hasolelim and Kfar Yehezkel who come on Saturdays.
15:30 Aanin Checkpoint
The gate is already open, but as yet no one enters. Three tractors and about 50 people are waiting. Two white vans from the DCO are in the space between the gates, in addition to military vehicles. At the right-hand edge of the compound, close to the fence, a sort of flat tent has been erected, new, as yet unused.
Crossing begins at 15:35. Five uniforms receive the comers. A military policewoman checks documents. In front of the gate stands a bearded man, among the workers, with all the green IDs of those seeking to cross, and he calls names in the order of the IDs that he holds. At 16:00, another man holds them., the first having crossed. We count 25 IDs. The crossing takes less than half a minute per person. The last worker passes after quarter of an hour. We enquire whether more workers are still to come according to the lists. "What do you care" is the response of the policewoman.
Four people arrive. A soldier initiates a polite conversation: "Come here, everything okay?" "Praise the Lord," answers the Palestinian; "Evening of roses," wishes the soldier.
Shortly before 16:30, the soldiers go down to lock the interior gates. Doesn’t seem logical that they are locked in reverse order to the entry route. Somebody arrives at the still open gate, but the soldiers do not volunteer to open the interior gates for him. A quarter of an hour of debate over opening, but to no avail. In response to the man’s question, the soldier replies: "No, I have no conscience." Only orders. The man will finally cross at Reihan.
About 20 people in front of the turnstile. Two manned positions inside. Around 17:00 there is no more pressure and one position closes. Workers continue to arrive in small groups and pass immediately. Four cars wait to enter the West Bank. The lower parking lot is full of cars. A visit to the public toilets discovers they are clean, though there is no running water in the basin.
'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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