Anin checkpoint: wide open

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'Anin

Tura-Shaked

Ya'bed-Dotan

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Breach in the separation fence

Separation fence

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Neta Golan and Shuli Bar (Reporter and taking photos). Translation M.L and B. B-A

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Feb-2-2022

Morning

Route 611 at six in the morning

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Shuli Bar

it is still a little dark, but many people already wait on the sides of the road for transportation. Almost everyone travels to work on construction in Harish City. They arrive from the West Bank and cross via the breaches in the Separation Fence and at places that are close to the highway. There is no need to form groups at the checkpoints. There is no need for passing permits and no permits for vaccine inoculations. The phenomenon is to obviate the need for the checkpoints. Perhaps the Occupation is over and we didn’t pay attention? Our logo, “No to Checkpoints,” is more appropriate than ever.

Route 611

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Shuli Bar

Traveling to work in a taxi. In the background is the city of Harish, which provides employment to tens of thousands of Palestinians

The small Palestinian settlement of Luxor in front of Road 611

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Shuli Bar

Most of the people crossing, park their cars or come in taxis to Luxor, a tiny settlement consisting of five houses. Parking costs NIS 5 – 10, Yet some Palestinians here benefit from the occupation.

Anin: A breach inside a checkpoint

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Shuli Bar

A’anin is an agricultural Checkpoint that designated for farmers from the village of A’anin. People cross here twice a week to their olive groves that are situated on the other side of the separation fence. Tracctor drivers must drive through the checkpoint, while pedestrians simply walk through the hole in the fence at the center of the checkpoint. Two days ago the soldiers were three and a half hours late opening the checkpoint. M., the farmer who always comes at the same time, obediently waited for the soldiers, but did not come today. His son was sick and he stayed at home with him. Today, ironically, the soldiers arrived on time, waited for him for 15 minutes, and then left.

Tura–Shaked Checkpoint – Workers from the Shaked Industrial Zone were leaving the checkpoint. Transport vehicles waited and then crossed. Schoolsgirls from the nearby village of Dahar Al Malek in the seamline zone hurried to cross to their school in Tura.

Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint – Soldiers were stopping vehicles and checking documents.

Location Description

Anin agricultural checkpoint

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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, for periods of time that are growing shorter Lith time. It is meant for Anin farmers whose olive groves have been separated from the village by the fence. 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. At times 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 every day 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 according to which 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 info-icon ), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.

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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Ya’abad-Dotan

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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)