Barta'a/Reikhan, Tayba-Rummana, Tura/Shaked, Thur. 15.12.11 morning

Place:

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Tayba-Rummana

Tags:

DCO (District Coordination Offices)

Seam Zone

Soldiers at checkpoints

Observers:

Shula B., Neta G. (reporting)

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Dec-15-2011

Morning

Translation: Dvora K.

06:05 A'anin CP

The gates info-icon of the CP are open and the first people to arrive there are now leaving. Among them are many young people and families with little children all dressed up. Ultimately, after the yelling and the mix-ups of two weeks ago, all the olive-picking permits have been respected and people can go out to the groves until the permits become invalid at the end of the month. The olive-picking season has not ended of course but againthe CP opens only twice a week for half an hour – on Mondays and Thursdays, at six a.m. and at 3 p.m.

Those who own large olive groves, who could not finish the work in the time allotted, submitted requests for daily passage through the Shaked CP in September. According to them, they did this on the advice of representatives of the Palestinian and the Israeli DCOs, who visited the place. They still haven't received responses. One of them told us that he owns 120 dunams, some over the fence, and to which he has no access. All of his land is in the seamline zone.

We drove the veterinary from A'anin to his clinic in Umm Reihan. We helped him improve the Hebrew in his clinic's sign. To our surprise, we found that a half of the clinic is a shop for household utensils, as an additional source of livelihood.

07:25 Shaked-Tura CP

We arrived together with the ride of the young children. The children run to the military police and open their bags even if they are not asked to do so. For tem this is the routine of going to school. A few people are waiting in front of the door to the inspection pavilion, in the direction of the West Bank. What, after all, is there to inspect in that direction?

08:00 Taibeh-Rumne CP

The CP has opened on time and the first person is going through. Somebody tells us that they opened on time thanks to us, but the truth is that they opened it before we'd arrived. Here, too, as in A'anin, people are still going through using permits valid for olive-picking, even though, according to the army, the season has ended. One of those going through tells us that he has a permit to go to his fields on the other side of the fence, for three months. His father, an 88-year-old tractor driver, has a permit for the whole year, because he is officially recorded as the owner.

The soldiers have to leave the CP by 08:30, the CP's closing time. We leave a bit before that and have an excellent breakfast in nearby Umm el Fahem. Here too we hear about the CPs: The wife of the restaurant owner – his cook – is a Palestinian, and she has a permit to stay in Israel, but she does not have a blue (Israeli) ID card. They have to coordinate their trips to the West Bank so that they go through during the time set aside for Israelis and for Palestinians.

We went to visit our young friend, W. On the way a tractor driver from A'anin, whom we know from the CP, stopped us. The gear of his tractor has to be repaired; he cannot go in reverse. He wants to take the tractor in for repairs and go home from there, but the A'anin CP is already closed and will reopen only at 3 p.m. We talked to Mahdi from the Salem DCO and the man was allowed to come back through the Shaked-Tura CP.

Location Description

Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

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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-22-2022

Ruti Tuval

The locked gate at the Anin checkpoint

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Tayba-Rummana'

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Tayba-Rummana is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence.
The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening.
During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530).
(February 2020).

Mar-11-2024

Shuli Bar

The huge wall at the Taiba Romana checkpoint. The checkpoint is closed. But people pass

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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).

Tayba-Rummana

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Tayba-Rummana
is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence.
The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening.
During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530).
(February 2020).

Mar-11-2024

Shuli Bar

The huge wall at the Taiba Romana checkpoint. The checkpoint is closed. But people pass

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