Reihan, Shaked, Sun 26.9.10, Afternoon
15:00 – Shaked checkpoint
There is a new shed next to the soldiers', made out of black fabric.
A few fences were added around the inspection chamber.
A woman comes out of the inspection cabin and appears worried since her daughter lingers on. She finally gets out in a hurry , angry with the soldiers who didn't treat her right.
The head of the Daher-el-Malec municipality comes over with three complaints:
2. The gate was not opened as usual at 07:00.
3. School children are forced to pass through the inspection booth despite the fact that some of them can hardly reach the door handle.
At this time he received no answers.
16:00 – Rihan checkpoint
A worker complained that in the morning on his way to Jenin, only one window was operating and only people from the West Bank who went into the SeamLine zone went through. He had to wait 40 minutes before he was allowed to cross over into the West Bank.
Only a few return from a day's work due to the closer imposed through the duration of the Jewish holyday.
16:30 – The stream of passage stops despite large numbers of worker coming back, because only one window is open.
16:31 – Everyhing stops because 3-5 people need to get out in the opposite direction and, as mentioned before, only one window is operational.
As usual , all we can do is protest that they open another window in times of pressure. Why were those windows built in the first place?
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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