Barta'a-Reihan checkpoint: what will happen next week?
16.45 – 15.30
Hole in the fence near the road from Harish to Barta’a – 15:50
The hole in the fence was close to Route 611 and close to Dahar al Abed on the Palestinian side. Workers were returning in the direction of the hole in the fence from construction work in Harish city. They crossed the road and the security fence to vehicles that were waiting for them near the houses. There was a long line of cars on the road leading to the checkpoint there was a long line of vehicles dropping workers off in the parking lot on upper side of Barta’a checkpoint.
Barta’a Checkpoint 16:00
Dozens of workers were walking down the sleeve and returning to the West Bank. One worker told me that he had a permit to go to work in construction in Hadera next week despite the closure. Many other workers don’t know what will happen next week. One of the guards at the checkpoint told me that the checkpoint would be open as usual because construction work is considered essential. Seven women from Barta’a returned from Jenin with shopping baskets. They walked up the road in the hot sun towards the vehicle checkpoint to be checked because it is the only crossing open in the afternoons where people can cross to the seamline zone.
A young man approached us who had received a permit to enter Israel but the permit was taken from him after a few days without any explanation (probably by the Special Security Forces.) We saw a photo of his permit on his mobile phone. I gave him a note with Sylvia’s contact number.
Tura Checkpoint 16:40
Five workers returned to the West Bank from the seamline zone. One of them works in the settlement of Shaked and doesn’t know what will happen during the closure next week. He will come to the checkpoint on Monday morning and wee. Three more workers cross quickly. A mother and daughter returning from shopping in Jenin crossed the checkpoint on foot and waited for the husband to pick them up. Another four cars crossed quickly in both directions.
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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