Anin: Shift commander attacks us with false pretenses

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

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Crowding

Delay in opening the checkpoint

Maltreatment

Observers:

Hannah Heller with Pierre (Driver) Translation: Bracha Ben-Avraham 16.30 - 15.15 Tura – Shaked Checkpoint, 15:15 – This checkpoint separated the seamline zone and Area A and from the major city of Jenin. A worker returning from

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Nov-11-2019

Afternoon

people and a carrige in front of a checkpoint

Waiting for the move after a day's work at harvest

Photo:

Hanna Heller

16.30 - 15.15
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint, 15:15 – This checkpoint separated the seamline zone and Area A and from the major city of Jenin. A worker returning from work in the seamline zone told us that this morning the checkpoint
opened a half hour late. An X-ray technician returning from Jenin told us that she is late to work at the hospital
every day because the checkpoint does not open on time.
Women with children were returning from Jenin, and a car returned from the seamline zone to the West Bank.
A’anin Checkpoint – 15:30 – the soldiers were already there and the farmers were crowded next to the gate, but
crossing had not yet begun. We talked with them and noticed that today there were more soldiers than usual,
as well as an officer.
We were told that there has been a threatening and suspicious atmosphere from the soldiers during the
mornings. This may have been due to the fact that people have crossed the separation fence through openings earlier in the mornings without permits. Many young people have
had their permits revoked.
At 15:40 two more vehicles arrived with a Druze officer and crossing began. We were surprised that today the checks took place near the gate close to us, so we were able to observe things from close by. People crossed one by one

and two female soldiers and the Druze officer checked people’s permits and ID cards. About 40 men, women, and
children returned to the village with two tractors loaded with buckets and sacks of olives. The olive harvest will continue for another month.
The fact that we were standing close by and understood what was being said in Arabic angered the Druze officer. He ordered Pierre to back away, and when Pierre drew closer again the officer began shouting and demanded that I present a certificate giving him permission to be there. He threatened to arrest him and physically shoved me.
We left at 16:00. The checkpoint was still open and people were still arriving.

Barta’a – Reihan Checkpoint, 16:10 – A line of cars arrived at the checkpoint and dozens of workers were
getting out and walking quickly down the fenced – in sleeve info-icon to the terminal and home to the West Bank.
People were going in the opposite direction going home to Barta’a. Some waited for taxis while others waited for
their cars to be checked. One our way home from the checkpoint we saw many more cars returning home
from Harish. Many of them had to cross at other checkpoints far away and not at Barta’a Checkpoint.

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)

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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).