Aanin checkpoint: the fence is even higher

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Ya'bed-Dotan

Zabda

Observers:

Hannah Heller, Gili Kugler, Neta Golan )Reporting) Translation: Bracha Ben-Avraham

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Feb-8-2023

Afternoon

Aanin checkpoint: The separation fence has been raised

Photo:

Hanna Heller

15:00 –A’anin Agricultural Checkpoint

16 people and two tractors were waiting to cross. The two soldiers responsible for guarding the fence were hidden in a guard booth at the center of the checkpoint. The fence has been repaired, renovated, and made higher. A vehicle from the military police drove along the security road evidently on its way to the Tibeh Romena Checkpoint.

One of the people waiting complained to us that the checkpoint opens only twice a week and that the people have higher expenditures because they have to travel to Reihan Checkpoint that is far away on the other days. He explained that the fare for a taxi ride from the checkpoint to A’anin costs NIS3, the fare from A’anin to Jenin costs NIS 8, and from Jenin to Barta’a Checkpoint costs NIS 18, and from Barta’a Checkpoint to fields belonging to residents of A’anin located in the seamline zone costs NIS 10, and the same fare for the return trip. Consequently the trip costs NIS 36 each way. This costs NIS 100 each day including cigarettes.

15:20: the military policemen returned and opened the checkpoint on time. People’s permits were checked and they crossed quickly. When we left another car arrived with three women. We were grateful that they had arrived on time and did not have to drive all the way

We drove past Barta’a Checkpoint and the parking lots surrounding it. It was less crowded than usual due to the heavy rains that had fallen in the morning.

15:40 – Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint

The checkpoint was not manned as usual and traffic was moving in both directions.

15:55 Hermesh Checkpoint

As usual the checkpoint was not manned as it has not been for a long time, and traffic was moving.

On our way back to Barta’a Checkpoint we saw that new small parking lots were being constructed on both sides of the bridge near Zubeida.

At the parking lot beneath Zubeida cars were already parked, while the other one was still not ready. It was not clear why cars were still parked on the sides of the road even where it was marked with red and white stripes.

Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint, 16:10, Palestinian Side

The parking lot was not full and a small number of people were returning from work. Two women were among the people crossing. One woman crossed to the seamline zone. The peanut vendor was sitting near the shed, but there were no strawberries or cakes today. One man complained that his work permit had not been renewed, but he did not know why. Perhaps Sylvia’s team that helps people in this predicament can help. Another man explained that he works as a maintenance worker in buildings in Hadera. His employer came to pick him up at 07:00 and at that time the checkpoint was not crowded. We were told that this morning the checkpoint was not crowded – an advantage of the storm.

16:40 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint

There was no traffic at this hour and we drove home.

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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).

Ya’abad-Dotan

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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)

Zabda

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Zabda
Located in the north of the West Bank,

May-24-2023

Shuli Bar

The huge parking lots in front of Zabda and the Barta`a checkpoint

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