Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Barta'a Rehan Cp
A very long queue of workers conducts itself in perfect order to the right of the only turnstile, in the direction of the terminal. A', about whom we told already during the last weeks, supervises the order genteelly and voluntarily. Everybody thanks him and praises him. There still is no paid attendant, despite the promises. We measured the arrival time from the end of the queue to the turnstile: 17 minutes. Some feel that it is more like an hour. Two lady teachers are called by loudspeaker to enter by the turnstile that is intended for those returning to the Bank. The parking lot is already almost full. Many trucks and vans are waiting for the opening of the checking site at 7:00.
7:00 Tura-Shaked CP
We arrive a bit before the soldiers. Some dozen people are waiting on the other side. The passage of the cars in both directions is quick, but the exit of people is delayed. One of the soldiers tells us that the delay is created because of an investigation which is conducted about a general security service prevented person. Very small children categorically demand from us calem (a pen in Arabic) and one urchin draws out of Lea's bag her only pen. The others make do with coloured paper napkins they extracted from my pocket. At 7:45 there are no more people waiting by the turnstile. A few workers come out and wait to be collected.
At each of the checkpoints were were asked to help obtain a wheelchair for a disabled family member.
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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