'Anin, Barta'a-Reihan, Tayba-Rummana, Tura-Shaked

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tayba-Rummana

Tura-Shaked

Observers:

Neta Golan, Shuli Bar (report and photos)

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Aug-3-2017

Morning

'Anin Checkpoint: opened on time, occupation schedule

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Shuli Bar

Tayba-Rummana Checkpoint - routine:, or: the occupation has tamed both soldiers and Palestinians

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shuli bar

“The prettiest girl in the world, isn’t she?”

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Shuli Bar

Barta’a (general checkpoint including entrance into Israel) – 6 a.m.

At our request, the Palestinian security guard willingly opens the metal arm barring the entrance to the lower car park. The waiting line for the turnstile moves and dissipates within minutes and then forms once again. Most of the people crossing are young men on their way to Harish to construct houses for Jews. Sabah al kheir, sabah al nur, salaam ‘aleikum, ‘aleikum i-salaam… (Good morning, peace be with you…) Two days ago at the Jalame checkpoint a man told Neta: “There may not be peace, but why not speak nicely?”
Digging work takes place at the checkpoint preparing to add some installations there.

‘Anin agricultural checkpoint (214), opens twice a week for people holding farming and work permits

6:30 a.m.
People cross the checkpoints, smile at us and receive our smiles with glad greetings and polite-to-hearty good morning cheer. This in itself is what gives us energy to pursue our activity against the occupation. Mahmoud, a kind of colleague, arrives stormily on his tractor and orders: Hurry, call up the DCO. The officer is not letting my kid through, he is under 12 years of age (thus eligible to cross, being registered on his parent’s ID). Mahmoud talks to the DCO soldier on the phone: “Brother, good morning. I am at gate 214 and the officer is not allowing my child through…” The soldier listens politely. At the same time the officer at the checkpoint relents and here comes the child running to his dad, smiling at us with flushed cheeks and climbing onto the tractor. Great, this occupation…

Toura “fabric of life” checkpoint (300), opens daily for people holding various types of permits

7 a.m. – For a moment this dreary checkpoint flushes its cheeks too, as at the same time a few vehicles and a few people crowd in front of it. We are updated about the fatal accident that occurred on July 19 in the nearby industrial zone. Five Palestinians were killed and another two were badly wounded when an Israeli truck crashed into the vehicle they were riding. The driver as well as the other wounded are hospitalized at Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, Israel. The accident was noted by Israeli media but without naming the casualties, except for the news flash website. This is not necessarily connected with the Israeli occupation.

Tayibe Roumana agricultural checkpoint (154), opens twice a week to people with farming and “fabric of life” permits

8 a.m. – Soldiers and Palestinians act out their roles in harmony. The former let five people at a time through the last turnstile to the woman soldier who meticulously inspects their documents, and the latter, including elementary school children, wait obediently. The occupation refined…

K. and his children were inspected as well as checked by phone, as he forgot to bring along the little ones’ birth certificates. He will photocopy his deed and keep a copy in his smartphone, just to make sure. He introduces his daughter: “The prettiest girl in the world, isn’t she?”

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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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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