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‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 28.10.08, Morning

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: DCO (District Coordination Offices) Palestinian farmers
Observers: Tami s., Chasida S. (reporting)
Oct-28-2008
| Morning
Translation: Yael Bassis-Student

Due to the inclement weather and a car malfunction we have arrived late and this would be an appropriate opportunity to express our outmost appreciation to our friends who get on the road at an early hour of four am in any weather.

0730 -0810 Aaneen checkpoint –
Our hope that the gate would still be opened, as it happens at times where there are many people crossing, left us disappointed. But this was also the reason for our longer than usual stay at the site.
Aaneen checkpoint operates as what the army refers to as "an agriculture gate", that opens twice a week and during the olive picking season it opens daily for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Upon our arrival there were about seven young people who set out for olive picking in the morning but due to the heavy rain had decided to return home, but alas the gate  was already close.
We called the DCO, asking them to come over to open the gate,and  we were told by the DCO that the gate did not open this morning. The youngsters  insisted that   the gate was open between six and seven this morning and that about 30 people had gone through. The DCO people were adamant in their claim that the gate wasn't opened in the first place and vice versa.
Following inquiries they promised to send over some soldiers, who didn't come, we called again and were told that they are already there, then they asked for the gate's number etc. Only after 40 minutes did the Hammer arrived with the key for the gate.
The gate opened and the farmers were able to return home. Luckily we had umbrellas.

Rihan checkpoint–
At the Rihan checkpoint, as usual, after 8:00 am traffic streams along. There are private cars that are being inspected in the new white tent as well as pedestrians.
We have not seen pick up trucks with agriculture produce. They may have not come due to the rain or they have already gone through. We did see one pick up truck loaded with oil Jeri cans and big bundles covered with blue plastic, maybe  olives sacks, the truck waited for inspection.
There were many vehicles at the lower (Palestinian) car park area as well as many drivers awaiting passengers going to Barta'a at the upper car park area.

Shaked checkpoint –
Gates are wide open and nobody crosses over at this time.

  • '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.

  • 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).

  • 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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