Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:15, Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Rachel picked up Ali and his mother at Rambam Hospital and I joined them in Yokniam. We are happy to report to our friends in the North that Ali’s walking has very much improved and he doesn’t need help now.
The parking lot and the length of hundreds of meters on the side of the road from the checkpoint east of Barta’a, is filled with cars. We returned to the upper parking lot (at the seamline zone) and went down to the terminal by the enclosed path (sleeve). Next to the carousel, we were greeted by a rainstorm and wind. Inside the terminal renovation work was being done: they are covering the cement floor with ceramic stone (!). The gate, opposite, is open and the workers work in bursts of strong wind. We tried to film a short film but the security guard at the place forced us to destroy it. Many workers arrive; those from Israel pass through quickly because they don’t have to pass any document inspection; the others are stuck in front of the only inspection machine (among three). The security guard says that everything is “under control.” After 15 minutes, three of the machines are working and the passage functions almost without delay.
16:10, Tura-Shaked
A young woman passes through by foot from the West Bank to the seamline zone and is picked up after a few minutes by a car that passes an easy inspection at the checkpoint. It is very cold. At 16:20 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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