Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 1.6.10, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
We nearly saw a prince on a white horse
14:20 Jalameh Checkpoint
The checkpoint seems completely quiet.
Bored drivers in the parking lot say that today fewer workers came through today because of the strike being held by Israeli Arabs.
Workers from the West Bank who work in Nazareth and Um El Fahem have not come and there is little traffic of Israeli Arabs. A security guard tells us that there is usually little traffic in the middle of the week.
Women agricultural workers are returning from work in Israel to the West Bank.
15:0 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
There is little traffic at this hour.
A young man comes through the checkpoint from the West Bank leading a beautiful white horse. The horse prances about impatiently and the young man is having difficulty controlling it. He is not riding it. A polite soldier tells him that he can only bring the horse through at Reihan checkpoint and only in the morning. After a phone call and a delay of 35 minutes the horse is allowed through and the young man is allowed to bring it to his village of Um a-Reihan.
15:45 – Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
Unlike most afternoons the Palestinian parking lot is partially empty and there is room to park. Not all the workers have gone through and the people who work in Barta'a are on strike as well as the sewing factories.
Workers who work for Jewish employers went to work this morning and are now coming back.
A resident of Nazlet Isa located between the Israeli baka and the Palestinian Baka is returning from Hadera. He has a factory for making shutters and has a business permit that allows him to purchase supplies in Israel. In the morning he can only cross into Israel through the Ephraim crossing at Tibeh, and in the afternoon he can only come back through Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint – despite the fact that the Baka crossing is right next to where he lives. Why is this?
At 16:45 five tenders filled with agricultural produce line up to be first to be checked tomorrow morning at 05:45.
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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).
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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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