Northern Checkpoints Barta`a: Illegals are willingly accepted inside Israel
Barta’a Checkpoint
The usual, familiar morning waiting line at the entrance to the Barta’a Checkpoint. People wait in groups in the open air, passage pace shifts from slow to fast, there is only one functioning turnstile. Soon everyone will miss this. Soon the new installation will be in operation, containing four turnstiles and people led like cattle in crowded tracks in which one cannot move but only proceed one behind the other. Indeed in summer the sun will not blaze on them but the heat inside the metal shed will be unbearable.
Eyes wide shut: in the lower car park we see lively pedestrian traffic, headed for their place of work in the Israeli city of Harish. Most of them hold a transit permit only to Barta’a and not into Israel. But in this case the Occupation shuts its eyes forgivingly for Harish needs working hands, and these illegals possess such hands. Once in a blue moon the Border Police raids the Harish construction site and goes BOOO.
‘Anin Checkpoint: and where do you sleep at night?
The passers into the seam line zone are ceremoniously received by the Military Police and the DCO representative. Most of the inspection happens on line, finding out who did not sleep in his own bed last night, or put more simply: who exited this checkpoint in the morning and did not return through it in the afternoon. The conclusion is that this person did not spend this night in his own bed, although it is possible that the suspect exited Aneen checkpoint in the morning and returned through the Barta’a checkpoint in the evening, where passers into the West bank are not registered. The army knows that Aneen youngsters do not always leave for farm work, ever since the fashion police turned on them. Suffice it to look at the junction before the checkpoint (400 meters) and see the contractors from Umm Al Fahm pick them up in their cars. They certainly are not on their way to paint Tel Aviv red…
At the Toura Shaked Checkpoint there are maximum inspection installations and minimum people passing through
Why is that? Who does this serve?
Tayibe Roumana Checkpoint
Farmers and non-farmers cross here to nearby Umm Al Fahm, each to his own errands.
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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