East Barta'a Junction: Today there is no passage in the fence
15:20 – 16:20
15;20 – Tura Checkpoint
Today also, women with packages and picnic baskets (but without permits to enter Israel), leave from the checkpoint in the direction of the prayer corner on the side of the road in the Seamline Zone, to travel to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. They tell us that during the month of Ramadan, every weekend (Thursday through Saturday), buses leave in the afternoon for Al-Aqsa, and they remain there until midnight. A large group of men, women, and children arrive from the direction of the single home on the side of the checkpoint. They cross at the breach in the separation fence and are picked up in cars to travel to Barta’a Checkpoint, where buses leave for Jerusalem. All this activity occurs, obviously, under the eyes of the soldiers at the checkpoint. Assumedly the men have permits to cross to Israel.
Two young men who return to the West Bank from work in the Seamline Zone, tell us that in the morning, the soldiers open the checkpoint only at 07:30, late by one hour.
A family with children and baskets of goods return from Jenin (West bank) to Umm Reihan (in the Seamline Zone). Few cars cross in two directions, with no delays.
16:00 – Barta’a Checkpoint
From the upper parking lot, one bus leaves for Al Aqsa. Most of the passengers are women.
Tens of workers return from work in the Seamline Zone and in Israel. Some of them return from a week’s stay. Along with the workers, families from East Barta’a cross to visit relatives in the West Bank. Few people return to Barta’a from the West Bank. The lower parking lot is relatively empty, proving that because of the fast, workers return home early.
16:20 – On the road that leads to Harish, around the junction of East Barta’a, next to the popular breach, and for a change, soldiers stand there to prevent passage.
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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