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‘Anin, Reihan, Thu 27.3.08, Morning

Place: 'Anin checkpoint (214) Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Tags: Slow passage
Observers: Leah R., Raya Z. (reporting)
Mar-27-2008
| Morning
Translation: Yael Bassis-Student
05:45 – 09:00
05:45- `Anin Checkpoint
We have arrived early. The gate was opened after one quarter of an hour but only  ten minutes later the first 'redeemed person in captivity' passes through. The slow passage is annoying and revolting.
An Arab-Israeli  couple from Um-el-Phachem arrives hoping that the wife could cross over to the Palestinian village to visit her sick mother. An hour later they loose hope and patience and return home.
G. who was set to meet us at the gate, did not make it early enough for the opening of the gate (she is a mother of five children).
Those who come early arrive as early as four-four thirty to get in line at the gate.
At seven thirty we were in despair and told her, over the phone, that we were leaving.
07:35 – Reihan Checkpoint
As usual. There are cab driver in both car park areas, the upper and the lower one.
 V. the coffee vendor is meticulous about keeping his vending area clean to ensure that no one would complain of dirt and send him away, as happened in the past.
08:50 – `Anin Checkpoint
On the way back we checked if all people had gone through, we found the gate open. G. on the phone says that she is still waiting . Five minutes later she finally goes through and following her meeting with us she goes back.
The soldiers on site say that this is their first day at this checkpoint and that they would try to speed up the process in the following days.

  • '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).

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