Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
6:10 Barta'a-Rihan checkpoint
6-7 large and small trucks are waiting on the main road for inspection; 3 more wait in
the car park. At this time people cross on their way to work, mostly young people. Within half an hour about 100 had gone through. They usually arrive in large groups. Stand opposite the locked gate that leads to the terminal , and wait for it to open. If God forbid they went inside in a company of more than five, one would immediately hear the loud speaker call : "Five at a time, go back". A few go through swiftly. In the shed there is a well-maintained praying area. Upon our arrival two people had just finished praying and walked to the terminal.
lavatories, as before, are filthy and lack paper. The floor is covered with water and mud.
Passage inside the terminal is quick and from a distance we observe no delays.
07:05 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
Passage begins late at the terminal. Inspection is slow. People continuously complain of the late opening hour, after 07:00.
One couple complain that their 10-year-old son was not allowed to cross with them and had to return home. In the recent passage permits, the remark regarding children accompanying their parents has been omitted. One person told us about an acquaintance of his, who had worked in Israel with a permit for an employer. For a limited time he was asked to work for another employer, where he fell and was injured in several parts of his body. The temporary employer (who is not listed on the permit) refused to take part in the medical expenses and the injured worker is barred from placing filing a complaint or demand some sort of compensation. At Kav La'Oved they cannot assist or demand compensation on his behalf without turning him in as an illegal. At this time this injured worker cannot work and, as put by his friend, is eating his heart out"….
The garbage overflows. Food leftovers are on the ground and the wind causes plastic bags to fly around in the air.
07:40 East Bart
We came across a destroyed house. It turns out that its owner asked but did not get a building permit from the civil administration (this is while East Barta'a is part of the Palestinian authority). When it was discovered that he had built without the permit, people from the civil management arrived and tore it down.
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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