Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
6:05 Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Many workers wait at the upper car park to be picked up for work. Some tell us that they arrive at the checkpoint as early as 04:00, in an effort to avoid delays and miss their transportation. The number of people going through this checkpoint has recently increased significantly. Therefore, between 05:00 and 06:00 it is very crowded by the X-ray machine. Only two windows are open.
The veteran workers of Shahak (a short ride) arrive at the checkpoint only after 06:00 and come out quickly.
A young fellow,whose passage permit at this checkpoint has expired, is delayed and is under investigation the entire morning. The expiration date on his permit does not appear on the computer and this causes the daily hassle. We suggested that he turn to the DCO.
06:55 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
The site is open but soldiers are nowhere to be seen. Only at 07:05 the soldiers show up and open the gates from the side of the West Bank. About 40 people walk in and crowd near the carousel.
At 07:15 they are required to back off and passage begins by checking lists outside (the generator is out of order). The process appears swift and comfortable.
Vehicles pass fast on both sides.
07:20 Schoolchildren arrive and quickly cross to Tura.
08:00 Rihan-Barta'a
We came back to pick up Alli and saw that there were still many people going through.
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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