North checkpoints: Harvest is over, less people crossing, but there was still much work left
12:45 – A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint
We came to verity that the opening hours had returned to regular hours after the olive harvest was completed – as of now the checkpoint will only open twice each week. Evidently in the District Coordination and Liaison Office there are agronomists who are certain that these are all that is needed to fertilize, prune, plow, and tend olive groves, since the farmers who live in A’anin across the separation barrier and can only come twice a week to tend their groves located in the seamline zone. A vehicle arrived carrying soldiers who identified themselves as trackers. Their job was to inspect the security road.
12:50 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
An empty truck drove quickly to the west bank, and two young men crossed to the seamline zone.
On our way to Mevo Dotan Checkpoint we stopped at the attractive grocery store in Emricha and bought delicious olives.
13:40 – Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint
The soldiers were keeping a lookout from the pillbox. Traffic was moving without delay and was not being checked. A truck driver coming from the West Bank shouted “There’s a problem, there’s a problem” at us, but didn’t stop to explain.
Soldiers from the Nachal came to ask what we were doing and to see how were doing. A driver going to the west bank greeted us with “Shalom Aleichem”.
14:00 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
The parking lots were full. The transport drivers were bored at this time of day with nothing to do. Agricultural workers from the Hadera area who had been working from 06:00 to 13:00 were coming back from work. They had crossed at Tibeh Checkpoint in the morning.
'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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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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