Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:20 Barta’a-Reihan
Many workers are wait for their transport after passing the checkpoint. Most are working in construction in the new community Harish. Passage is quick and there are no complaints.
We pass to the entrance of the checkpoint on the Palestinian side, along the route that workers follow after their day’s work, which is empty now in the morning. We exit next to the checkpoint from the Palestinian side.
06:30 – 06:45. Ayad, who has taken on the organizing the queue and has been doing this for a number of months, continues to arrive every morning at 05:00. He greets us and says that everything is in order … every few minutes the turnstile opens and about 50 workers pass. Occasionally young people try to bypass the queue, but Ayad scolds them and they move aside.
The carpark is full of cars. Apparently they have not yet started checking trucks.
06:45. We return to our car and leave.
07:00 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
On the seam zone side there are no waiting cars, and only 4 people waiting for transport. The checkpoint has only now opened, instead of at 06:30, and people are coming out very slowly. Those exiting are angry with the soldiers “who come when they want,” and are angry with us “who only talk and don’t do anything …”
A teacher, pregnant, asks not to pass through the magnometer, as she is concerned. We tell her that the machine is checked by doctors, but this does not reassure her as she has to pass every day.
07:20 Many cars are passing from side to side and people are waiting for their transport. Some are going to work in their fields which, they can reach only by passing through the checkpoint daily, and some are travelling to the nearby industrial zone, or even to Harish, to work in construction.
07:30 There are about 40 people still waiting, but passage through the checkpoint is a bit quicker.
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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