Northern Checkpoint, Anin: The Olive Harvest is at its Peak
16.30 – 15.00
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint – 15:00
Pupils were returning home from school in Tura and women with children and shopping bags were returning home from Jenin to Um Reihan. Vehicles were also crossing in both directions. Two Palestinian women who were born in Tura and married Israeli citizens were returning from the West Bank after visiting families. They have permits to cross at this checkpoint to visit since the regulations for family unification have been in place.
15:25 – Anin Checkpoint
Men, women, and children with bags and buckets of olives were approaching the closed checkpoint. An angry woman and young man approached us and reported that in the morning three people had forced their way through the checkpoint and crossed without permission. One of them was caught but the two others got away. The soldiers went down to their olive grove and arrested her 26-year-old son despite the fact that he has a permit. They said he would return immediately but he has still not come back and they have not heard from him.
The soldiers arrived at the checkpoint at 15:50 but continued to sit in their car. We utilized the waiting time to hear what the people had to say about the fact that the opening hours of the checkpoint in the morning and the afternoon are still not clear. “It’s according to whatever the soldiers want at the time.” One of the people showed us his permit which stated that despite the fact that he was once prohibited from crossing, he can now cross without a magnetic card, and consequently he is sometimes permitted to cross and sometimes not. Another person told us that he tends an olive grove through an agreement with the owner. Meanwhile the owner has died, and his status regarding the grove is not clear, so he did not receive a permit this year to cross at A’anin. Instead he crosses at Barta’a, which is farther away, since he is 55 years old and allowed to cross there.
More and more people arrived and continued to wait. Two civilian cars with soldiers and people from the District Coordination and Liaison Office arrived and drove around, until the soldiers finally got out of the car at 16:00. They readied their weapons, opened the checkpoint, and the people and vehicles began to flow through without being checked. About 100 people and three tractors crossed.
The woman whose son was arrested approached the woman officer what to do. She immediately made a phone call and told them to let the man go, since she knew him and knew that he has a permit. We hope that he was released.
At 16:15 people were still arriving and returning to the village.
'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)
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