Update during Corona: Anin - "Be healthy, you and your family"
M., an old acquaintance, is a farmer from Anin. This evening he called to hear how I was faring, and tell me how he is. He says all the villagers are in their homes, the streets are empty. They have oil, flour, olives, vegetables – they’ll manage. But how will the olive trees manage? This is the time to plow between the trees, pull out the winter weeds that have taken over the grove. But there is no one to talk to, who in the DCO would let them cross the Separation Fence these days?
“Perhaps you could speak to them, so they’ll let the farmers with tractors cross?” I promise him to try and remind us both that the Jews now, too, are under closure and everyone’s scared.
“Stay healthy, you and your whole family. That’s why I called.”
'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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