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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 27.1.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Hitches at checkpoints Identification Cards (ID)
Observers: Ruthi T., Haby N. (new member), Chana H.
Jan-27-2008
| Morning
06:00 Reihan Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened at 05:30 and people are coming out in a slow stream. All – women, elderly, and youngsters – were in the rooms from five minutes to half an hour. We talk with the women (seamstresses). Some have got used to the situation and have no complaints, but one young pregnant woman is not prepared any longer to accept this routine of being examined every day.
Students pass from the Seam Zone to Jenin – their passage with packs and suitcases takes about 15 minutes.
06:30 – in the Palestinian parking lot seven pickup trucks with agricultural produce are waiting to be checked. From the lot we can see about 40 people crowded at the entrance to the terminal. By 06:50 all are swallowed inside.

07:00 Shaked Checkpoint

The checkpoint is already open. Three cars with passengers and one commercial van pass into the West Bank. All are going through the inspection room, apart from the old man and his donkey. Passage time – three minutes.

07:30 Old Bartaa Checkpoint

The checkpoint is open and some 20 people and three herds are waiting in line to pass. IDs are checked, also against the sun (to see whether they are forgeries) and the names are recorded. One of the transients tells us that last week herds of goats were not allowed through. The soldiers did not succeed in subduing the uproar and they threatened to fire at legs. Eventually they dispersed the people, including children, with smoke grenades.

08:00 Reihan Checkpoint

Four passenger cars being checked under the roof – 15 minutes.
The terminal gate is closed and 15 people are waiting. It opens after ten minutes and all go on in.

  • 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).

  • Tura-Shaked

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    • Tura-Shaked

      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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