'Anin, Tayba-Rummana, Tura-Shaked

Place:

'Anin

Tayba-Rummana

Tura-Shaked

Observers:

Shosh Fried and Shuli Bar (Reporting). Translation: Bracha Ben-Avraham

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Dec-11-2017

Morning

Tibeh Romana Checkpoint: Abu Ali extends his hand in greeting as usual.

Photo:

Shuli Bar

We are cold and they are suffering.

06:40 –A'anin Checkpoint (Agricultural checkpoint open twice each week) "You only have new clothes in your home."

We heard shouting and arguing from the other side of the hill. Soldiers from the military police were in charge of the crossing as representatives of the occupation this morning. They were checking Palestinians' documents at the position near us at the main gate. It appeared to us that two people were being detained. Afterwards it became apparent that he had brought several packages of cigarettes as a present for a friend, but had to return them to the village because he had not brought a permit for them. Not only was it only ten degrees outside and cold, but the people's attitude seemed cold as well and they did not greet us as usual. One person asked us if we had brought clothing and when we said we had not brought any, he retorted that "You only have new clothes in your house."

07:05 – Tura Shaked "Fabric of Life" Checkpoint

What is there to check among children on their way to school?

We stayed in the car because of the cold and observed a steady but intermittent stream of men on their way to the nearby industrial zone and several women who were on their way to teach at the school in Um Reihan, a Palestinian rural town in the northern area of Shomron from the last days of the Second Temple and in the period of the Mishnah. Three little girls from Dahar Al Malec came up to the car window and smile "good morning" to us. They immediately asked for a pen but we did not give them. We wondered whether to give them or not. These girls and their brothers used to give us hostile looks and even threw stones and even spat at us. The older children pulled the younger ones away quickly. Today they smiled at us. One of the people in our group gave them small gifts to make children happy and to break down the barriers between us.

A car stopped next to us and the driver called to us, "Look, the soldiers are making little girls go into the inspection room alone. Why? What have they done? What are they liable to do?" His voice is full of concern. "Do something!" and he closed his window. We called the Liaison and Coordination Administration and after a long time a sleepy woman soldier answered with "OK, I'll pass it on."

08:00 – Tibeh Romana Checkpoint

The two of us drove from Mei Ami to Um Al Fahem to warm ourselves up in a coffee shop. Here people are always glad to see us and it's a good feeling. Students on their way to school as well as parents were buying spiced hot pita bread or pastrami sandwiches. The salesman immediately arranged a warm corner for us to sit using two chairs and an upside-down crate. After drinking coffee we drove through the alleyways of the city and reached the checkpoint just as the military police were opening it. They were the same soldiers who had opened the A'anin checkpoint. About 20 -30 pedestrians, four or five tractors, and K. in his golf cart were waiting on the other side of the fences, gates info-icon , and the security road. Everyone crossed quickly and everyone except for one person greeted us "Good morning" and shook hands. If you ask me, this expression of friendship is the most important thing that we have done over 15 years of activity. One person complimented the soldiers: "Today the military police are good."

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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Tayba-Rummana'

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Tayba-Rummana is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence.
The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening.
During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530).
(February 2020).

Mar-11-2024

Shuli Bar

The huge wall at the Taiba Romana checkpoint. The checkpoint is closed. But people pass

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Tayba-Rummana

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Tayba-Rummana
is an agricultural checkpoint. It is located in the separation fence in front of the eastern slopes of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rummana. Dozens of dunams of olive groves were removed from their owners, the residents of these villages on the western side of the separation fence.
The Palestinian villages next to the checkpoint are Khirbet Tayba and Rumna. Dozens of olives dunams were removed from these villages' residents and swallowed up in a narrow strip of space, on the western side of the separation fence.
The checkpoint allows the plantation owners who have permits to pass. Twice a week, the checkpoint opens for fifteen minutes in the morning and evening.
During the harvest season, it opens every day for fifteen minutes in the morning (around 0630) and fifteen minutes in the afternoon (around 1530).
(February 2020).

Mar-11-2024

Shuli Bar

The huge wall at the Taiba Romana checkpoint. The checkpoint is closed. But people pass

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