Barta`a Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Anin

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Tags:

Seam Zone

Observers:

Hagar D. M., Dudu, her partner, Neta G. (reporting and photos), and Pierre, the driver. Marcia L., Translation

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Aug-10-2022

Morning

The soldiers guarding the fence live at the Aanin checkpoint

Photo:

Neta Golan

Aanin checkpoint: life behind fences

Photo:

Neta Golan

06:00 – An introductory tour for Hagar and Dudu of the two sleepy Barta’as. This is a new place for them. Dudu is surprised by the separation of citizenship and rights between the two towns that are physically connected and populated by one clan, the Kabaha. The example I use to illustrate this situation is that a resident of Israeli West Barta’a travels to give birth at Hillel Yaffe in Hadera, while her friend from East Barta’a crosses the checkpoint on her way to give birth in the hospital in Jenin or Tulkarm.

06:15 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side

The parking lot is packed with Palestinian and Israeli vehicles that are waiting to transport workers to Israel and to Barta’a, which is in the Seamline Zone. Many workers go up from the terminal via the sleeve info-icon (the enclosed, roofed passage), that looks to Dudu like a cage. We go down the sleeve to the opening of the terminal. Many buy coffee at the buffet that is run by a settler from Harmish. We arrived after rush hour. There are no complaints; only one young man complains about the length of the sleeve and says he arrives at work tired.

06:40 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

We are too early. It is still closed.

06:50 – Anin Checkpoint

A military policeman and policewoman arrive in their vehicle and open the checkpoint. The inspection takes place next to the middle gate adorned by yellow pillars. Two tractors pass through and about 100 people, among them one woman. The passage of the last two is delayed for some reason, but they also cross. Two soldiers, “Guardians of the Fence,” that was placed there since the closing of the breach in the fence (see Observation, 24.07.2022), walk around as security personnel. They have “housing” on the site, including water containers and garbage bins.

Many of those crossing wait for transportation to the junction of Highway 6535 that leads to Mei Ami and Umm-al Fahm.

07:20 – In Hadera, to Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

The checkpoint is open. A few walk along the highway; others wait for transportation in the shed. They say that generally, the checkpoint opens at about 07:00, 07.10.

07:30 – We return home. Many of those who passed via Anin Checkpoint are still sitting at the junction

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).