Reihan, Shaked, Sun 30.5.10, Morning
Translation, Bracha B.A.
"The Checkpoint is Good Today" – A strange phrase from a passer-by.
06:00 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Small trucks with vegetables are visible in the inspection facility and ten other trucks are waiting to be checked. A., the driver, brings seven workers and they come through the terminal in 13 minutes. At 07:43 five cars drive up to be checked. Three of which have been waiting since 06:00. It seems to us that there are fewer people coming through and fewer women are going out to work.
On our way back to the upper parking lot we saw a car with two Israelis coming from the West Bank. They yelled at us, "Go home and do the laundry. What do you want, another six million of us to die?"
07:00 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The gates are open and two herds of goats go through within 4 minutes. There are 20 people waiting next to the turnstile. Two women come out first at 07:03. A taxi drives up with five women and is thoroughly inspected – a soldier lies on his back underneath to check it. Even the old car belonging to the school principal is check underneath. Small children are waiting next to the concrete blocks for soldiers to check their bags. The taxi has gone through and the women passengers are waiting near the inspection booth. One of the people passing through said that he had tried to cross the checkpoint with an air conditioner and was refused, so he tried to drive it through Shaked-Tura. He came to the inspection booth and found the door closed, so he pressed the buzzer. For this he was punished and had to wait three hours.
At about 07:30 four people are detained next to the exit from inspection facility. One is a teacher who comes through the checkpoint every day. They are accused of being in Israel illegally even though they are coming from the West Bank. Finally at 08:00 two of them are released after a conversation with the head of the Liaison and Coordination Administration in the field when they found they were permitted to remain in the West Bank overnight. The rest of the teachers went on their way to school at 07:50 and the teacher was forced to return. Evidently he sometimes returns via Reihan Checkpoint and the computer at Shaked was not updated. The fourth person remained until matters were clarified.
A farmer who grows tobacco near the checkpoint says that the soldiers make a lot of problems for him when he tried to transport tobacco leaves across. He was told to go to the Liaison and Coordination Administration officer if it happened again.
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).
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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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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