Mevo-Dotan area: New road for the settlers passes through Palestinian Olive grove

Place:

'Anin checkpoint (214)

Ya'bed-Dotan

Tags:

Expropriation of Palestinian lands

Separation fence

Observers:

Marina B. and Ruthi T. Marcia L., Translation

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Oct-17-2021

Afternoon

Mevo Dotan: A gate that closes the way for the settlers on expropriated agricultural land

Photo:

Ruti Tuval

Mevo Dotan: Marina climbs the new road

Photo:

Ruti Tuval

Anin Checkpoint: Someone throws away good clothes (which we brought?)

Anin Checkpoint: A tractor passes between the blocking columns

Photo:

Marina Banai

Location Description

'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 info-icon ), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.

Ya’bed-Dotan

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Ya’bed-Dotan

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)