Anin checkpoint: A 14-year-old boy will not pass without his father. His father is paralyzed

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Umm al-Fahm

Tags:

Problems at agricultural checkpoints

Observers:

Neta Golan, Shuli Bar (reporting and photos)

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Jul-27-2022

Morning

Barta`a Checkpoint: the passage in the shed is fast

Photo:

Shuli Bar

06:00 – 07:30

Barta’a Checkpoint - There were many people in the upper exit of the checkpoint this morning. We went down to the lower parking lot. The shed that crosses the terminal was empty. The passage flowed without any crowding.

The uncle of one of the young men was suddenly a “forbidden entrant” to Israel and he doesn’t know why. Neta gives him the phone number for clarification.

Checkpoint in Barta`a: Neta gives the guys the phone number of the detainees team

Photo:

Shuli Bar

Anin, Agricultural Checkpoint - About 70 people and three tractors pass through. Two were sent back. A 14-year old youth who came with his birth certificate instead of coming with his father and his father’s identification document, in which he is registered. The father, by the way, is paralysed. Another young man, the son of Faid Y., (an old acquaintance) lost his permit. The soldiers sent him to go through the distant Barta’a Checkpoint. The father was angry because the soldiers did nothing to try to solve the problem. They could have called the DCO and consulted with them.

Anin checkpoint: 3 tractors and 80 pedestrians

Photo:

Shuli Bar

We took three residents of Anin to Umm al Fahm, to an unknown area. We traveled alone a long and narrow road. We saw surprisingly lovely houses decorated with drawings on the walls.

Umm El Fahm: spectacular wall paintings

Photo:

Shuli Bar

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.

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).