Northern checkpoints: More breaches in the separation fence than checkpoints

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Observers: 
Hannah H. (Reporter), Hagar D. (Photographer) Marcia L., Translation
Nov-24-2021
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Afternoon

15:10 - 16:30

 

15:10 - Anin Checkpoint

We didn’t know what time the checkpoint opened so we decided to pass it twice.  A., whose olive grove is next to the checkpoint, wasn’t there so we assumed that the harvest was already over. M., an acquaintance of ours, who is about the only one to pass through the checkpoint with a tractor, didn’t go to work today because his son is getting married.  A car from Umm Reihan arrives, and its passengers get out and go to the wedding via the breach in the fence.

 

15:30 - Road 611, at the breach next to the village of Luxor

Several cars stop on the sides of the road; workers get out and cross via the breach in the fence to the parking lot in the village.  We see people leave the village and go to cars that wait for them. The large pile of scattered garbage next to the area of the parking lot attests to the degree to which the breach is used.

 

The army “worries” that the vehicles will be able to cross the breach and set up mounds of stones there.

 

15:50 - Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint

Many workers arrive from work via transportation provided by the contractors and go down the sleeveinfo-icon (the enclosed passage for pedestrians to and from the terminal).  The kiosk is open, and the worker there tells us that in the mornings now, not as many workers pass through the checkpoint as in the past.  “Everyone goes out via the breaches in the fence.” But most of those returning home pass through the checkpoint. Residents of Barta’a who return from Jenin cross via the vehicle checkpoint.  We hope that the in the winter, the checkpoint will also open the terminal in the afternoon so that the Barta’a crossing will be protected from wind and rain.

 

16:10 - A growing stream of workers return to the West Bank.

 

16:15 - Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

Israeli cars arrive with about 20 workers from Israel and the Seamline Zone. Some pass through the checkpoint and some turn to the path that goes around the checkpoint. They tell us that this morning, the checkpoint was opened on time. 

Palestinian cars cross in two directions.

Return to Anin Checkpoint

A father and his small son along with several workers arrive at the breached “checkpoint” and pass through.  The army has no memory of this.