‘Anin, Reihan, Thu 27.11.08, Afternoon
Translation; Yael Bassis-Student
15.50 -Aaneen Checkpoint According to people, the checkpoint was opened on time. Three soldiers in a Hammer are in the vicinity of the checkpoint. About 30 Palestinians go through slowly! One of them, a resident of Aaneen requests that the gates would open daily, even after the olive picking season, at least until the end of December. He explains that there is a great deal of work to be done, pruning dead branches, cleaning up the area etc. Lea speaks to the DCO regarding that, they promises to look into that.A tractor driver carrying plastic junk covered with blankets asks to cross. The soldiers send him back. He unloads the junk on the ground and drives through empty. Security….A person asks us to help him obtain a permit to get to his olive trees, right by the fence, and precisely for that reason he is denied passage and is unable to pick his own olives. Lea is dealing with the DCO regarding that.
17;00-Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint We arrived with bags of clothes for the Palestinians and were forced to pass them on to a Palestinian worker who subsequently passed it on to the drivers enclosed area. Later S. arrived on site and told us that the checkpoints' management gave an order allowing us to get down to the lower car park area.At the entrance to the the terminal from the Seam line zone side, we found tens of people waiting and that is despite the two operational posts and passage appeared streaming along.During our entire stay on site people came pouring in. Thursday…..
17:45 – We left.
'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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