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Barta'a-Reihan

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Observers: Tsafrira Z. and Hanna H., Marcia L., Translation
Jul-05-2017
| Afternoon

15:45 – 16:40

 

15:45 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

 

As usual, the first thing that welcomes us is the loaded garbage container.

 

People and vehicles pass in the direction of the West Bank.  The returning workers tell us that in the morning they opened the checkpoint on time.

 

We were notified that the electricity in Daher al Malec is supposed to arrive on 10 August,inshallah.

 

On the road to Barta’a, we met a truck from a local company whose job is to empty the garbage (finally).

 

16:05 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint

 

In the upper parking lot they are doing renovations and building benches that provide shade.

 

There are also many more flower beds and they are blooming in a blaze of color.

 

Many workers are returning from work in construction and agriculture.  Families with bags of groceries from Jenin and students are returning to the seamline zone.      

 

  • 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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