‘Anin, Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05.45- Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
In the parking lot on the side of the Seamline Zone, there are already many workers waiting for rides to work. Some of them are sitting in the new shelter. It is very cold and windy; it is not pleasant. We met a group of seamstresses waiting for a ride to the sewing workshop in Barta’a. As always, they greet us with warm smiles. We met a group of workers who usually pass to Israel through the Irtah Checkpoint (Efraim Gate), but today the contractor who hires them arranged with the administration of the checkpoint, that all of the workers will be permitted to pass through Barta’a Checkpoint. Three of them did not pass through. Why? Because. The contractor also arrived, but that didn’t help. Perhaps tomorrow, we’ll check to see what happens. Right now there is a very long line at the entrance to the terminal.
06:30- Anin Checkpoint
The gate is open, a few workers have passed through already, but we hear voices arguing from a far, from the direction of a group waiting at the passage. It appears there is a dispute about places in line. We are told that the dispute even got to the point of hitting. Few tractors pass, few people leave. Then a large family leaves: parents, young women, one of them with a child, a younger daughter with a younger child, and so it continued. We exchange greetings and smiles. Everyone is dressed for a family celebration. It should be with good luck. At the same time, the shouting continues but we leave.
07:00 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
Several men are sitting in the shelter, all of them in a good mood and laughing at everything. A young child appears alone and marches energetically toward the 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)
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