Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Sat 13.4.13, Morning
Translation: Dvora K.
Tura-Shaked 0730-0800
The CP is crowded. People are going through in both directions and there are relatively many cars. The passage is quick. There are many families with little children. All of them dressed up, on their way to the West Bank. There seems to be some festival someplace in the area.
Two people talk to us: One tells us that here in Tura he can go through quickly without any problem, but at the Reihan CP they always put him into a lot of strange and peculiar difficulties. His car is often damaged in the course of inspection, and there is a feeling that they are making trouble for him personally. This is not connected to the Occupation especially. The second person tells us that he was once caught in Umm el-Fahm without a permit, and since then he is listed as 'forbidden on condition' and he cannot work in Israel in order to provide a livelihood for his family. Before he worked in Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet for 15 years and they were all very satisfied. Today he has a permit only to get to his own land. We wrote down the personal details of both of them and we will try to take care of these matters.
Barta'a-Reihan 0810-0845
Here too the CP is very crowded. We understood that there are many people inside and they are coming out slowly. One man is looking for his sister who arrived with him and, according to him, has been inside for an hour and a half! Finally, she is now coming out. The queue of waiting vehicles is longer than usual — we counted 8 cars waiting to enter the inspection area.
Here too there are families with little children all dressed up, on their way to the West Bank. We asked about this, and the answer was: "a trip to Jenin". During this time the traffic jam inside begins to disperse; more people are leaving, and it seems that the passage is now quicker (we could not get estimates of the time).
Another Saturday in the routine of the Occupation, how terrible that for so many people, on both sides, this is indeed the daily routine.
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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