Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:00 Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint.
Many of the workers have already gone through inspection and at this time are waiting transportation. I go out through the sleeve. For a short while a bird's twitter is heard but immediately we're back to reality. I am told that adults go through quickly, but the younger people's inspection takes between half an hour to an hour. The person in charge whom I turn to is practically hurt by my question and suggests that it takes only 10 minutes. We inquire further and all answers are correct – at times it takes 5 minutes and other times it might take half an hour and even an hour. Another problem is that the computer is often out of order and so is the inspection facility.
Workers' permit indicates time of exit and time of return. When people come early more than once, they are sent to Salem. Is it a punishment? I didn't understand.
The person in charge claims that he must comply with orders . Of course, order is above all!!
Someone gives a mime show of the inspection; he takes off his clothes and shivers from cold, gets angry and gets dressed again. All giggle wholeheartedly.
An elderly man goes by, waiting for his son. He is on his way to the Hospital. A car with two small children drives by; they appear in an urgent need of medical care (Yuval's commando for medical care).
07:00 I leave.
07:15 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
This site brings up many questions regarding its necessity and its conduct. The checkpoint is open, and only a few are crossing. Those who are here usually talk with us. Tell us about their children, work etc. they are friendly.
The children go through and one girl sticks out her tongue at us. She might have a reason to angry this morning. I like her.
everything seems to be ok.
07:40 I leave.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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