A girl was listed in her mother’s ID card, but she was not allowed to cross. Why? Because they said so
Tura – Shaked Checkpoint, 15:30
The checkpoint was quiet. A worker returned to the West Bank, and a woman from A’anin crossed to the seamline zone because A’anin Checkpoint is closed today. The woman was born in Um A Reihan, which is in the seamline zone but moved to A’anin following her marriage. She needed a special one-time permit to ross and attend a wedding in Um-A-Reihan.
Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint 15:50
A large group of workers arrived who were going home to the West Bank. Only about 10% of these workers entered the seamline zone through this checkpoint in the morning. Most of them told us that they work in construction in the city of Harish that is located in Israel near Barta’a, but they crossed at Jalameh or Tibeh checkpoint in the morning which are far away. Two of the workers asked us to arrange for them to cross to Harish at Barta’a in the morning. I wish we could. We explained that the policy is for people to cross here only in the afternoon and in the morning they can only cross at checkpoints that are located on the (former but now non-existent) green line.
A group of young men crossed from the West Bank to Barta’a to work at a wedding as waiters. They were followed by two musician-singers. Students returned home with suitcases from the university in Jenin.
An agitated man was standing next to the turnstile outside the terminal who was holding a discussion with his mother and sister who were delayed inside the terminal. They live in Barta’a and were returning from Jenin. The girl was 15 years old and has no separate permit, and she is listed in her mother’s ID card, but she was not allowed to cross. Why? Because they said so. After several hours of delay the weeping girl and tense mother finally left the checkpoint.
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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