Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Today's shift was quiet and un eventful. Palestinian did not turn to us requesting assistance in something. Routine of occupation, our lives, theirs.
15:20 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
Getting to the checkpoint after slowing down due to the deep ditch on the road, one can notice the cleansing of the road and the large waist container. Quite a change from the hot days of summer. Fields are cultivated. There is hardly any traffic. Only a few vehicles move on both direction of the road.
A patrol soldier once again ask how we're doing. He is under the impression that we are in need of help. Once again we explain who we are and what our organization is involved in.
15:50 Barta'a-Rihan checkpoint
People rush into the sleeve, in a hurry to get home. Many young people all of whom are men. The soft drinks vending machine recently installed is out of order. No one seems to care. We ask regarding conditions at the checkpoint in the mornings and about the volunteer usher. We are told that he arrives every morning and on his own initiative conducts passage. There is some crowding at the exit. Three windows are open but most of those returning to the West bank after a day's works at the Seam Line zone and inside Israel are not inspected and bypass the terminal from the side. This ease down crowding. Waiting time in line is 8 minutes.
A few men return from the direction of the West Bank, perhaps Jening with shopping bags. We didn't ask
The lower car park is full. It is difficult for cars to maneuver.
17:00 We 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)
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