All checkpoints have been opened but those of Anin and Taibe Romana are closed
After finding out that several agricultural checkpoints were opened for crossing as before the Corona time, I wished to find out what was going on in “our” area, in the north-western part of the West Bank. The DCO, as expected, do not answer.
Our acquaintance M. of Anin village in the Jenin district, was happy to hear my voice, and inquired about the health of my family, my friends and my own. He and his family are alright. The Ramadan fast is about to end in 8 days. The agricultural checkpoint that enables the villagers to enter their lands that have been closed beyond the Separation Fence has not yet been opened. No one tells them when this will happen.
At the inquiry center of the Civil Administration *4943, a polite woman answers the phone and does not know a thing. She suggests that the villagers call the Palestinian DCO in Jenin, but their response is doubtful. No one knows when the Corona closure will be over, she says, nor when all the checkpoints will be opened again.
I called the Center for the Defense of the Individual, 02-6283555. Nihaya, who knows about checkpoints, was absent. She will be there on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. I’ll try.
I call M. to update him on my failure. He does not answer and gets back to me after 8 p.m., apologizing that he took a Ramadan nap in the afternoon… I promised to continue looking into the matter and get back to him on Sunday. Happy Ramadan!
'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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