‘Anin, Shaked, Mon 11.6.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
06:20 A’anin agricultural gate
It appears that a few permits have been renewed, and we see another 20 men and women waiting at this hour after about 20 residents of the villageof A’aninhave already crossed to the seam zone. The DCO representative is on site, which may be why things run relatively efficiently. The female soldier is the one about whose behavior residents complained last week. They’re not willing to put up with a young female soldier interrogating an elderly landowner in a provocative manner and deciding whether to allow him to cross to his land.
A man comes through holding a wrinkled bag. “She [the soldier] says, ‘what’s in your pocket [bag, in Arabic]? There’s no attempt at all to preserve people’s dignity.
A man complains that a garbage contractor from Mei Ami (a Jewish locality adjoining the separation fence) has for years been dumping garbage in his grove. What hasn’t he done; whom hasn’t he spoken to – nothing helped. Sometimes they burn the garbage and the stench is terrible. It also damages the trees.
Another man says, “On Thursday they turned children back again. They weren’t allowed to cross with their parents.” We don’t know whether the parents had an agricultural permit or a work permit, but the anger grows nevertheless. Isn’t there any way to work out an arrangement to take care of it?
07:10 Tura – Shaked checkpoint
Children are on vacation until September 1, 2012. The checkpoint is in order. The gate to the fenced corridor leading to the inspection station in the middle of the checkpoint is locked. People are waiting for a soldier to open it. A few dozen people wait on both sides of the checkpoint. Those crossing to the West Bankare mostly workers and young students. Inspection takes a relatively long time, given the nature of the procedure. A youth tells us, “If they weren't delayed us, how would we know we’re under occupation?”
07:30 New Barta’a checkpoint (“Reihan”)
It’s crowded at this hour, with workers crossing to their jobs and others returning home from a night shift. A few pickup trucks wait for their loads to be inspected. Crossing goes quickly. When a military vehicle goes through everything stops until it crosses the checkpoint. Who’s the boss here; who’s supposed to wait for whom?
08:00 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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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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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