ברטעה-ריחן, טורה-שקד
15:00 – A’anin Checkpoint
The soldiers and we arrived at the checkpoint on time. Dozens of people, including some women, were waiting. The soldiers opened the checkpoint and everyone crossed immediately together with several tractors carrying used items and junk.
A polite soldier doing active duty came to talk with us. We explained to him about the injustice of the separation barrier, and he seemed to understand. Meanwhile more farmers arrived and the soldier had to return to his duties. One of the Palestinians told us that the soldiers were very good. It’s all relative, but it’s difficult for us to listen.
15:30 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The renovation work at this checkpoint is going on constantly. Now they are taking care of the road that leads to the checkpoint. At the junction leading to the army camp there is a traffic sign forbidding entry to all vehicles and a sign that says that entry is permitted to workers at the site. We went in as well. There were very few cars at the checkpoint which is usual for this time of day. The constant renovation gives the impression that the occupation intends to be here to stay for a long time.
16:00 Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
There were a lot of cars in the parking lot as well as along the sides of the road. People continued to come out of the terminal to the parking lot to go to their cars or to official or unofficial taxis. It was difficult for drivers to maneuver and there was a concert of horns, but there was no shouting.
We left the busy parking lot at 16:30 and drove home.
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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