Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:00 Tura-Shaked
At first glance it looked as if the checkpoint area had been cleaned, but when we entered the sleeve we saw lots of dirt on the sides. A soldier, who ordered us to get out of the sleeve, promised to make sure the place was cleaned. Next to the gate on the Palestinian side, a boy was standing. He was not allowed to pass through into the seamline zone since he did not have a permit. It did not help that a relative came from the seamline zone.
There was not much traffic, only a few pedestrians and every now and then a single car. A vehicle from "Reihan Security" arrived and let some workers out. We left at 15:30.
On the way to Barta'a-Reihan we visited the industrial area "Shahak". We picked up a few hitchhikers at the turn to the checkpoint. One of them told us that he lives next to the checkpoint at Tura but that he has no permit to pass there, so he has to make a long detour to return home through the checkpoint at Barta'a.
16:00 Barta'a-Reihan
The parking lot on the Palestinian side was crammed so it was very hard to maneuver the car. Many cars were parking on the road. A man told us that he had been detained at the Ya'abed checkpoint in the morning because he had refused to let the soldiers check his wife. They had handcuffed him and brought him to the Dotan camp. He had been held there until an officer released him after more than 3 hours.
A large number of laborers returned from work in Israel or the seamline zone. There was a long line at the inspection machine. It appeared that there had been a breakdown, sometimes only one machine was working and sometimes not even one machine was functioning. When we tried to find out what was going on we were told that they were taking care of things. But at 17:40 the line was still very long. We were told that only one window is open in the morning so it might take 2 hours to pass through.
We left at 18:00
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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