Reihan, Shaked, Tue 17.7.12, Morning
Translator Dvora K.
6.00 – 7.40
6.00 Reihan CP
Workers who arrived at the CP early are sitting in the upper parking lot and complaining that in the morning, during the first hour, the passage is very slow. There are long delays near the x-ray machine. "Yesterday and today were very bad."
At 6.10, when we arrive at the entrance to the terminal we hear the noise of many people inside, but the traffic at the exit flows steadily and there are two active windows for the biometric inspection. The workers who return from the night shift are taken care of quickly. One of those going through tells us about his 62 year old uncle who has worked in Israel for many years. Recently someone informed on him that his permit was invalidated and he became a 'forbidden [entry into Israel] person by the General Security Services'.
7.05 Shaked CP
The CP is manned but the soldiers are still struggling with all the internal and external gates of the CP. There is a perennial problem with a lock that does not open. One of the soldiers passes easily through the fence from one side to the other; do they really need this internal fence? One of the officers explains to us that there is expensive equipment in the inspection room, and the 'problem is being taken care of'. People and cars are waiting on both sides of the CP.
At 7.20, at long last, people from the seamline zone are allowed to enter the compound but they are still waiting near the inspection room. At 7.25 people from the West Bank are also allowed to enter and there is now a crowd and a lot of noise near the turnstile. About 30 people are waiting. A herd of goats are the first to go through with no problems. At 7.30 they begin to allow people and cars to go through in both directions. The passage is orderly and quick.
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)
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