North: pedestrians and tractors loaded with junk wait to pass through to the village of Anin.

Place:

'Anin

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Ya'bed-Dotan

Tags:

Transfer Permits to Israel

Observers:

Tsafrira Z. and Neta G. (Reporter and Photographer)

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Jun-12-2019

Afternoon

A way to create shed

Photo:

Neta Golan

14:50 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

Quiet and empty. Two people pass through to the West Bank.

15:10 – Anin Checkpoint

About two dozen people and three tractors loaded with junk wait to pass through to the village of Anin. One tells us that his son has not received an agricultural permit, despite the fact that last year he received one. The father, age 61, finds it hard to work alone. We refer him to the Center for the Defense of the Individual. Another tells us that on Monday morning, they took his son’s agricultural permit claiming that he worked in Natania without a permit. But according to the father, his son has a permit to work in Israel and at the Barta’a Checkpoint, he passes through with no problems.

15:15 – The military police arrive in time and open the checkpoint. People leave the concrete shed in which they found shade, and stand beside the gate. By 15:25, everyone has passed through.

We pick up two hitchhikers, residents of Yamon, who were on their way to Barta’a Checkpoint. The two work in Umm-al-Fahm nearby. There is no public transportation from there to the checkpoint and therefore they have to travel by hitchhiking.

15:40 – Ya’bed-Dotan Checkpoint

We Pass by Barta’a Checkpoint on our way to Ya’bed-Dotan. On the way and also next to the checkpoint we see many more army vehicles than usual, but there is no delay in the traffic in two directions.

16:00 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint

The parking lot is very full, the Palestinian security guards are in place, many workers return from work and drivers wait for them. One person prays behind the metal shed and two, between the cars. For some reason the side door of the shed is closed. A family with two chidren and three large suitcases, stand out in the area. The father is from Barta’a and the mother is from Shechem. They live in Jordan and come to visit their family in Barta’a. They are waiting for their uncle from Shechem, who will join them.

16:15 – We leave. The man who sells snacks blesses us with peace

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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)