Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
6.00 Barta'a Riehan checkpoint.
Hundreds of workerssit on teh sidewalk round the upper parking lot, wiating for transport to work in Israel and the seam zone. We went down to the terminal entrance, two windows were functioning. A loudspeaker announced "Machsomwatch women have arrived." If only this would have hastened work, but the slow pace continued of the Palestinians coming out, each carrying his package and telling us that it was very hot inside. At 6.35 a third window was opened. Finally 10 people exited within a minute and the flow began to speed up. At 7.00, when we left, there were still tens of people sitting on the sidewalks above
7.00 Tura-Shaked checkpoint.
6 soldiers were present bu the checkpoint was closed.After 15 minutes it was opened and people began to pass through slowly. About 50 people were waiting on the West Bank side. 7 cars and 3[?] people passed. One person told us that the previous day he returned from Jenin with his wife and sick child, a one-and-a-half year old, returning from the doctor. He stopped his car and went to show his permits of all of them, while his wife waited in the car, holding the baby. He returned to the car in order to drive through, but the woman soldier refused to let the wife pass without being checked. They tried, without avail, to be allowed to stay in the car as otherwise there was no way to look after the baby while the father was driving. Also, outside the heat was unbearable while inside the car there was air-conditioning. The mother was forced to leave the baby on the back seat and the father crossed the barrier very slowly. He asked the soldier 'Why?" The answer "That's how." ["Kacha"]
We left at 8.00. On the Tura side there were still many people having to reach work.
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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