Barta'a checkpoint: There is money for unnecessary signs, for the roof - no
15:45 – 16:45
15:45 – Tura Checkpoint
Three workers return from working in the Seamline Zone. In the morning, they went to work via Barta’a Checkpoint; that is, they had to go a long and needless way in order not to be late for work. Tura Checkpoint opens at 07:00 and sometimes even later. Cars pass in two directions and the crossing is fast. A student returns from university in Jenin to his home in the Seamline Zone and six workers pass to the West Bank.
We met a resident of Ya’bed who works three days a week cleaning the area of the checkpoint (only inside, between the fences, obviously). He “plants” two large bags of garbage on the army’s pile of garbage, that has been next to the checkpoint for years, and tells us that three times a week a car comes and only picks up the bags.
A resident of Daher el Malec who works in packaging coal told us that since Corona, as with everyone, there is no work and the economic condition is terrible.
16:10 – Barta’a Checkpoint
Tens of workers return from working in Israel and in the Seamline Zone. In honor of Hanukkah, a large, illuminated sign that directs the traffic to the Israeli path and to the Palestinian path was installed above the vehicle checkpoint (in the direction of the West Bank). This is in addition to the sign that exists. I didn’t know that there was any misunderstanding about the directions. Money, time, and workers were found to put up this superfluous sign, but resources still haven’t been found to finish the roof above the sleeve, in “honor” of the rain.
Everything is routine at the checkpoint. A number of people return from Jenin to Barta’a, and those who return to the West Bank, flock to the kiosk to buy pastries for Shabbat.
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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