Barta’a-Reihan, Jalama, Tura-Shaked
Jalameh Checkpoint, 14:30
We brought several patients from Rambam Hospital to the checkpoint. We met A. and Ruthi gave him some things for his children. There were several other vehicles from "Derech L'Hachlama" (The Road to Health) – an organization that transports Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank through the checkpoints to hospitals in Israel where they receive treatment. The organization also sponsors vacation days for patients and their families. Lately there have been more patients entering through the Jalameh Checkpoint rather than Barta'a. We transport patients whenever it works out for us to take then when we are traveling to observe the checkpoints.
There are few people crossing at this checkpoint at this time of day.
Shaked – Tura Checkpoint 15:30
This checkpoint is also very quiet at this time of day and there are few people crossing in the early afternoon. Two men and two women were waiting for a car that came to take them to Um – Reihan.
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint 15:50
An increasing flow of people is moving down the sleeve to the entrance to the terminal. As we expected, lines were already forming behind the turnstiles next to the palm reading machines. Three machines are working but there is a line and people are delayed. Evidently those who work in Israel cross without having to sign in. We don't understand this regulation.
By the crowds and numbers of people coming back from work we can imagine the conditions that our colleagues report during the morning crossing. Most of the complaints are about Fridays and Saturdays when the crossing only starts at 07:00 instead of 05:00. This is inconsiderate, in light of the fact that these are shorter work days.
We gave one man Sylvia's phone number so that he could find out why he was prevented from entering Israel by the security services and how to solve the problem. Another person said he had not reached Sylvia and that her phone was busy throughout the designated hours.
We waited for someone who was supposed to bring us a request to work in Israel and other paperwork so that we could bring it to our friend A., who had promised to take care of it.
We left at 17:00.
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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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