ברטעה-ריחן, ג’למה, טורה-שקד
14.10 Jalama- Gilboa Checkpoint
Rachel has collected Amjad, his daughter Mary, and another young man from Rambam hospital. I joined them on the way, and we took them all to the Jalama checkpoint. Amjad and Mary (in a wheelchair), and her father passed through the vehicle transit lane because it’s impossible to take a wheelchair through the turnstile. The traffic in the direction of the West Bank was halted to allow the girl and her father to go through. A Palestinian cleaner told us that his salary is being paid by a manpower contractor who serves all the privatized checkpoints. A friendly guard updated us that already a year ago the present “White Snow” security company has replaced the “Civilian Intelligence” company.
We were not allowed to descend through the “sleeve” (an enclosed corridor) because we would be unprotected there. Beyond the checkpoint one could see that the car-park was full. A lot of time has been invested in landscaping throughout the checkpoint, including a loquat tree, which was full of fruit. If only this had been a normal and legitimate frontier between two sovereign nations…
15.10 Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
It was almost deserted. At 15.20 two women and a girl arrived in a vehicle on their way to the West Bank, and a youth came from that direction.
15.50 Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Many workers, both men and women, were returning from work. All of them were friendly and smiling. They told us that all the inspection windows were working. Afterwards, we heard a loud argument between truck drivers, one of whom has approached the inspection area too closely.
Someone is growing wonderful roses here . . . .
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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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