Barta'a checkpoint: returned to being very active in the mornings
15:20 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
An empty truck on its way to the West Bank, is delayed at the vehicle inspection checkpoint. Behind this truck, another six cars pass through quickly to the West Bank. Two workers return from work in the Seamline Zone and a family from Daher-al-Malac (in the Seamline Zone) pass through with food for a family visit in Ya’bed (in the West Bank). The passage is fast. Next to the checkpoint and army installation, in the agricultural section, where for many continuous years they grew only tobacco, (in order to save the tilled land), there are seedling olive trees.
15:45 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
The checkpoint is noisy with life. In the upper parking lot there are drivers who have permits who offer rides to Shechem on the road that bypasses the checkpoint. Hundreds of workers go down the sleeve (the enclosed pathway to the terminal), on their way home. At the kiosk, which is in the sleeve, there is great activity and four settlers work there energetically to supply rugelach for Shabbat. Next to the kiosk, a dealer sells telephone cards and there is a great demand. In front of the turnstile that leads to the exit from the checkpoint, there is a very long line.
At the exit from the terminal, in the direction of the Seamline Zone, they added an additional turnstile, in order to hasten the exit to work in the morning. However, people continue to complain about the crowding in the morning next to the conveyer belt that inspects packages. We weren’t successful in finding out how many conveyer belts there are—one or two—but in any case, there aren’t enough, and the crowding in the morning continues to increase.
At the checkpoint there is traffic also in the direction from Jenin to Barta’a, and people return with packages.
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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