Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 22.11.09, Morning
5:50 A'anin CP
Inspection of the documents is conducted on the other side of the middle gate inside the CP. People come out of the CP with long waits between them. One of the workers reports that at this time about twenty people are waiting to go through. Somebody shows us his permit, which will become invalid after November 30. He claims that all the permits become invalid on that date and there is a rumor that after that people will not be given agricultural permits at all. Is that true? The olive grove near the CP has been ploughed under recently; apparently with the garbage in it, which still can be seen sticking out from many places.
6:10 Reihan-Barta'a CP
"Today is a good day", says a worker on his way to the seamline zone. From the gate at the lower entrance we hear the voice of a woman who is organizing things with exaggerated assertiveness, even though there is no crowding at the gate. In the window, a woman is standing and doing her work with surprising efficiency. At 6:22 an additional window is opened for eight minutes. Worried and frightened workers report to us that there is a new practice of not renewing permits of passage to the seamline zone for respectable veteran workers, for all kinds of fabricated reasons. There are many rumors about informing. A representative of the Barta'a local council intends to speak to the DCO about this matter.
The soldiers arrive and the gates open at 7:00 on the dot. About twenty-five people are waiting near the turnstile; five minutes later the herds go through. The schoolbags of the pupils are inspected near the soldiers' post; the cars go through quickly while the workers go through slowly. Within five minutes six people came out going in the direction of the seamline zone. Those going through to the West Bank go through more quickly. It is important to note that by contrast with the rest of the CPs, where there is lively traffic mostly in one direction at certain times – here, at Tura, the traffic is heavy in both directions and it seems that the inspection room serves those going in both directions at the same time. In our opinion, the time has come to provide separate services for those coming from the West Bank and those going there, at least during the rush hours, or, at least, as was suggested in the past, to open the CP earlier so that workers can go through before the school children before and after work.
At 7:55, at the entrance to the Jalameh CP, there is a very long queue of cars waiting for the gate to the West Bank to open. We have to go around the queue on the right on a dirt road in order to pick up little Aya in the parking lot, which, since the opening of the gates for Israeli vehicles, looks quite deserted.
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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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