‘Anin, Reihan, Thu 11.9.08, Morning
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06:10 Aanin Checkpoint
Checkpoint is open and people are passing, as are tractors. About 50 men and women, maybe more, are waiting on the other side. The soldiers are working efficiently, checking, listing, marking, and sending on. The residents say that because of Ramadan some people are not going to work.
06:45 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
At this hour no one is waiting in the lower lot, apart from two vansloaded with foodstuffs and one young driver who has slept in his vehicle. An endless flow of youngsters, mainly going to work in the Seam Zone. A group of workers is returning home to the West Bank from night shift – very tired.
I. relates that in the early hours at least 150 men and women have crossed. Despite the fast, they have to work. He says that children do not have to fast, but most do for at least part of the day. School hours are shortened during Ramadan.
At Amriha Checkpoint, on the roads to Jenin and Tulkarm, no problems were observed.
Time it takes to pass the terminal, from entry up to the exit sleeve: about 20 minutes. Few private cars pass the vehicle checkpoint. One shift of vans changes, and one of the merchants says that there is less demand for food from Bartaa. This is the second time we hear it.
08:30 – we left with a father travelling to feed his sick son at Rambam Hospital.
On the way, we collect two teachers (a man and a woman) on their way to school in Um el Reihan. They say that each day they try to hitch rides since no taxis go in their direction.
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'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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