north: A proud father crossed to the West Bank with his small daughter wearing a red dress
14:50 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
There were only a few people but lots of filth. The garbage container was gone and the garbage was thrown on the ground. It appeared that the disposable food containers and plastic bags were mostly garbage belonging to the soldiers.
A proud father crossed to the West Bank with his small daughter wearing a red dress. A single car waited too long in order to cross. A mother and her small son were waiting for a ride under the shed. The mother is an X-ray technician who works at the hospital in Jenin, and her son attends kindergarten nearby. Two students join them and waited. Another car arrived and also had to wait.
15:10 – A’anin Checkpoint
The gates were locked and no one was there. We were surprised since usually the farmers from A’anin arrive before the checkpoint opens at 15:15. When the hour arrived two army vehicles passed along the security road, but did not stop. Perhaps the opening hour had been changed? We called the District Liaison and Cc-ordination Office several times, but there was no answer. When we called our friend M. we found out that there has been a funeral in A’anin of one of the residents, a 68-year-old man, and everyone had returned to the village for the funeral, so no one was left to cross in the afternoon.
15:40 – We drove past Barta’a Checkpoint and went to F.’s grocery store in Emricha as we usually do. We enjoyed talking with F., her mother, mother-in-law, and two of her daughters. We continued driving east on Route 585 to Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint on the way to Jenin. The checkpoint was not manned and the sale of houses in the settlement of Mevo Dotan continues. We continued southwest and Hermesh checkpoint was also not manned. The road to Kaffin and Baka el Sharkiya and Tulkarem was open.
16:20 – Barta’a – Reihan Checkpoint
People were returning from work and drivers were standing on both sides of the crossing shed shouting their destinations. The parking lot was emptying out at this time of day.
16:40 – When we were walking back to our car a resident of Barta’a and his wife stopped us. He had two complaints: One was that after 20:00 people can cross the checkpoint through simply driving through the vehicle crossing, but if they arrive five minutes earlier they have to take the long way through the terminal and along the sleeve to the other end. What is the logic in this? His wife complained that she, like other women, was forced to cross through the narrow passageway where men and women were crowded together. We told them that we could not change the situation, but that we could write about it.
'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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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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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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