‘Anin, Shaked, Mon 4.6.12, Morning
06:00 Agriculture checkpoint at A'aneen
There are new soldiers at the site. Passage is slow, each person's bag is inspected. Soldiers refused to let through children under 16, who can cross with one of their parents, who holds an "agriculture" passage permit. The kids are forced to return home to A'aneen. We try explaining to the soldiers that they are wrong, but they insist that they work by the book and refuse to talk with us.
We call the checkpoints representative at the DCO – Vahel, who agrees that a farming passage permit can let through children. We give the soldiers the cell phones so they can hear Vahel and they refuse to listen;"Who is Vahel?". Towards the end of our shift soldiers approach u,s realizing that they were mistaken ( :"Why didn't you tell us?"). In the meantime the children had gone home and their parents proceeded without them into the Seam Line zone.
Last week those farming passage permits had expired and now they need to fill out forms to receive valid ones. Who knows how long that might take.
A few tens of people had crossed over today.
07:30 Tura (Shaked) checkpoint
At this time the site is quiet. Very few go through. School Summer vacation has begun and those crossing are going to sit exams, reading from their notebooks while walking.
08:00 The new Barta'a (Reihan) checkpoint
Taxi drivers fight over each passenger who returns home after a night shift, heading towards the West Bank.
Many pickup trucks are waiting for inspection prior to driving into the Seam Line zone.
A young fellow tells us of a traumatic event that he has endured recently: He arrived at the checkpoint with his vehicle and the inspector suspected he was carrying suspicious material. He called military police who treated him brutally: they tore the vehicle apart, not finding a thing. He was given a piece of paper with a list of the damage and was advised to fix it and hand the bill to the IDF. He wanted to know whom to turn to.
08:30 – 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)
Ruti TuvalMar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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