‘Anin, Tayba-Rummana, Tura-Shaked
15:00 A'anin CP 15:00
Three tractors, several men and one woman are returning to A'anin from their fields, which are cut off from the village by the security fence.
They ask if we know what is happening at the armistice talks in Egypt. All of us hope that the calm will continue.
15:30 Tura-Shaked CP
There is almost no traffic, as usual at this CP at this hour.
16:00 Taibeh-Rumana CP — It is forbidden to give Palestinians a key.
One tractor and eleven people are waiting. Two border patrol policemen, one policewoman and one woman soldier are already here. They are on time.
They open the middle gate and the gate in the direction of Taibeh-Rumana, but they can't open the gate in the direction of Umm-el-Fahm, where all of the people are standing. The lock is on the outside between the two gates; a border policeman pushes his hands through the narrow space between the two gates. He tries over and over again, very patiently; shakes, pulls, hits the gate with a stone. They pass the key from one to the other but the lock does not open. One of those waiting takes a hammer from his tractor and offers it to the border policeman, but he does not take it. Another Palestinian suggests that they give him the key, perhaps it is easier to open from his side. They don't give it to him. The man turns to us and explains that the army is not allowed to give a key to Palestinians.
For 35 minutes, all of the people waited in the hot sun (see photo). It is very hot. One person complains that they have taken away the container that served as a shed. He asks us to help get it back. Another person lies down on the road and tries to hide in the shade of the gate.
16:20 A border policeman, who is busy with his own vehicle, says (to his friends, not, God forbid, to the Palestinians) that they will soon bring another key.
16:35 The key arrives. One more small effort and the gate opens.
'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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Tayba-Rummana
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Tayba-Rummana is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence. The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence. The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening. During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530). (February 2020).
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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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