Barta’a-Reihan, Jalama, Tura-Shaked
15:10 – Jalameh – Gilboa Checkpoint
We brought a couple and their daughter in a wheelchair from Rambam Hospital to the checkpoint. They sat tired and quiet in the back and unfortunately we could not talk to them for lack of a common language. The only thing that brought us together was a refreshing snack. At the checkpoint there was little traffic. We parted with a handshake and wishes for good health.
16:10 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Things were crowded and disorderly in the Palestinian parking lot as usual, but despite that all the various vehicles managed to maneuver and leave and enter without drivers honking or shouting. This is always surprising. In the upper parking lot on the seamline zone side there was a lot of traffic of people returning home after a day's work. The sleeve was filled with a constant flow of young people moving quickly. Despite the fact that only two out of three inspection booths were open, people crossed quickly. Those working in Israel in construction in the settlement of Harish are exempt from having their documents checked. They go around the terminal and come out on the Palestinian side. At the exit we met a taxi driver who asked for our help to find out why he was not allowed, by the Security Forces, to enter Israel.
17:10 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
It took longer to reach the checkpoint because of a traffic jam. Apparently at the junction between Um Al-Reihan and Tura police were checking documents or simply directing traffic.
The checkpoint itself was quiet. A few cars and several people crossed to and from the West Bank. Nothing was new there except for the cleaner area around the checkpoint and the garbage container. If we ignore the sights of the occupation: the barbed wire fences and army camp, and the checkpoint, we see that everything is green, spring-like, and the air is clear and the view is lovely. The call of the Muezzin sounded over a Mediterranean Switzerland. There was a bright red sunset as we drove back.
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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