Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Three days’ work lost.
06:40 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
The upper parking lot is full of workers who are waiting for a ride to work. Some of them say that they are not working today because of rain. In the sleeve, we met A., smiling from ear to ear, greeting us with baklava. “Everything is OK”, he says.
08:00 – We pass through the turnstile on the Palestinian Side
A group of young men asks to speak with us. Yesterday they were sent to the District Coordination Office (DCO); it wasn’t clear to them for what. One of them showed his permit, only two days old. At the DCO, “the window was closed.” They returned the way they came. Today it was the same story, they sent them to the DCO. This time they were equipped with a note of referral. Later, from home, I called one of them to find out what happened. The DCO told them to return tomorrow because there was no electricity(?).
Three days of work are lost: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Update: I called the DCO again to find out what is happening. The female soldier said that yes, there was no electricity because of the rain and the computers did not work. She said that the young men can come today, until 15:00. I phoned one of them and he said they would go immediately.
Update: The young men traveled to the DCO, reported there and waited. The person responsible told them how to call him. They called and he told them to wait. At 15:00, they told them to go home and come tomorrow. An update will follow.
Update on the next day,14.4.2016. Today is the third visit to Salaam. According to one of the men, they stand there like dogs, no one wants to speak with them, and in the end, they tell them to go home. Three days’ forced “vacation”.
Update as of Tuesday, 19.4.2016: Leah called to find out what happened with the permit of the young man. Today he said that there was nothing new; he hopes that his employer will try to help. I told him, “You rest . . .“ and he answered jokingly, “My wife cares for me; she always has work for me . . . “
08:30 Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
A nervous young man was not permitted to pass to the West Bank with his car, despite the fact that according to him, he passes through every day. We understood that the car was obviously not registered with a permit. His brother came to take the car back to the Seamline Zone. At a later hour, only individuals passed through.
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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