A man wishes us a happy holiday and hopes that peace will be made

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Tags:

Delay in opening the checkpoint

Environmental Hazards

Observers:

Rachel Weitzman, Edna (guest), Neta Golan (report and photos) Tal Haran translating

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Oct-7-2019

Afternoon

Northern Barriers: Gericans are ready to store the oil from the current harvest

Photo:

Neta Golan

15:15 Anin Checkpoint

In the vineyard next to the checkpoint two people are already picking olives. One woman and about a dozen men, one donkey and two tractors wait next to the open checkpoint gate on the seam-line zone side. Some of them have brought empty yellow jerrycans (see picture) for the olive oil that will be made from the coming olive harvest. We are told that the PA recommends beginning the olive harvest on October 15. The harvest according to the occupation authorities will begin on October 23, when the Jewish holiday of Sukkot is over.

15:25 The Military Policemen arrive 10 minutes late and take their time. A woman soldier yells to the waiting people – "how many are you!" A male and female soldiers open the two locked gates info-icon . Our acquaintance M. who has been forbidden to pass junk for his livelihood practices saying the difficult Hebrew word for junk gruta'ot. A woman soldier yells, "Come on!"

15:35 everyone has passed and another tractor arrives. A woman soldier yells "hurry up!". He hurries up and passes.

15:55 The Toura-Shaked checkpoint

A woman with a girl and two teenage girls wait for their transport to Umm Reihan. One car passes over to the West Bank. A large pickup truck and a transit van cross over to the seam-line zone. Two young men and another two teenage girls cross.

16;15 Barta'a-Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian side

Lots of people get back from work at this time. It is saddening and outrageous that they cannot cross here in the morning and have to go to checkpoint further away and more crowded. People go over to their own cars or transit drivers. We purchase coffee from two children selling it with their thermos bottles, and disappoint the guy selling soft drinks. One person asks us if tomorrow is the holiday, wishes us a happy holiday and hopes peace will be made. So do we…

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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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).