Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
A young man supposedly threw stones a long time ago. when? It's not clear. However, his father is paying the price and his entry permit to Israel has been revoked.
15:00 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet. Two pedestrians cross to the seamline zone and one crosses to the West Bank. Three cars cross to the West Bank. A woman with a baby wrapped in a blanket gets out of one and goes to the inspection booth. One of the drivers complains about the frequent delays in the opening of the checkpoint in the morning.
15:30 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
A Palestinian man approaches us in the sleeve that leads to the terminal. He tells us that his nephew was arrested for throwing stones (or possibly not) a long time ago. The incident occurred a long time ago and is not connected to the current terrorism in the last few weeks. The young man is being held in Megiddo Prison and has not yet been tried, but his father and his entire family have already been punished. The father's work permit has been revoked, and his Israeli employer is trying to help but without success. The Liaison and Coordination Administration says that the permit will eventually be returned, but they don't know when: perhaps in a month or two.
Many workers are arriving. Those f who work in Israel go around the facility for registering permits, since in the afternoon they are not required to register. Two people ask that we come in the morning because it is difficult and crowded. One person says that things have been difficult in the last week and this morning was particularly difficult. A few people are crossing in the opposite towards the seamline zone, most of them are women, children and teenagers who are dressed up in holiday clothes.
16:10 – A'anin Checkpoint
We arrived late at the checkpoint and most of the people have already crossed. An old man greets us and his wife is riding on a donkey beside him. The checkpoint commander, a friendly second lieutenant, reports that about 30 people have already crossed and another 50 will arrive. The soldiers at the checkpoint are from the Bedouin Brigade. The crossing to the West Bank is running quickly and smoothly. The Brigade received instructions this week that there was no need to check ID cards or permits for people returning home to the West Bank. A young man arrives and presents his ID card out of habit.
We left at 16:30 – a half hour before the checkpoint is due to close according to the time during the olive harvest. These are the last days of the harvest. Next month (December) the checkpoint will again be open only twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
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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