Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, 05:45
Many workers are waiting for transportation at the parking lot of the seamline zone. Most of them work in construction in Harish. A young worker turned to me with a permit to work in Israel, on which was written: “Despite the fact that he is blacklisted by the police.” The blacklisting had expired, but he was afraid to ask for a clean permit for fear that they would extend the blacklisting, as they did to his friend. According to him, with a permit like that, he would earn about NIS 200 less per day of work. I hope that Tammy will be able to give him at least some good advice and I promise to keep in touch.
06:15 – In the parking lot on the Palestinian side the line is so long that it splits into two at the end. A., the volunteer attendant, says that this morning, the passage is very slow; the turnstile is always locked for extended periods of time and in fact causes considerable tension that we haven’t seen in a long time here.
Tura-Shaked Checkpoint, 06:50
The checkpoint is open and people and cars pass from side to side. One of the workers, who comes from the West Bank, informs me that at the checkpoint “there are Bedouin soldiers who are trash.” According to him, yesterday, Saturday, they completely undressed one of the young men, even his underpants, and told him to go outside the inspection room naked. He refused, obviously. “Here he is, a good boy. Today he passed through without any trouble.” I spoke with the officer in charge, a lieutenant, who claimed that it couldn’t have happened: “If something like that had occurred, I would have known; that would cause a lot of noise.” The lieutenant then told me about other malicious stories the Palestinians spread about his excellent soldiers.
At 07:45 a sad boy with a backpack arrives from the direction of the West Bank. He is returning home to Dahar-al Malach. Two sad workers return to the West Bank; the contractor in Harish notified them that the building material did not arrive. There goes a day’s work. I pick up a hitchhiker. He lives with his wife and children in Umm Reihan (in the seamline zone) and is now returning from his mother’s house is Anin, where he stays twice a week. “I love her very, very much.” Even on the days that the Anin Checkpoint is open, he isn’t allowed to pass through it because he is no longer a resident of the place. And so, instead of an 8 kilometer trip, he travels 27 kilometers, all around. In the days before the West Bank, he would jump in and visit in 10 minutes. He worked for years in a building in Natania. Now they are finishing a 7-storey building in Umm-al-Fahm and after that, he will work in Harish.
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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