Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:35 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
We arrived at Barta’a Checkpoint a little after 15:30; it is extremely crowded on the Palestinian side. In the parking lot, everyone is blocking everybody else. There is an atmosphere of a suk filled with people; there are counters for coffee and baklava. It could be nice, but for the fact that parking lot is choked and depressing. It seems that here everyone is prohibited by the General Security Services or the police. Everyone is asking for help at the same time. I thought it was possible to get used to this, but no . . . “
Apparently construction on the checkpoint is not advancing and the “temporary” condition is hard on the workers at both the entrance and at the exit. In the entire area there is not a bit of shade. Attempts to stretch blankets between the the poles to provide some shade were thwarted by two of the security guards whose names are known to us. According to what Alia wrote, we experienced a flood of requests to have prohibitions removed, like the one to prohibit covers that provide shade. There is a feeling of deliberate heavy-handedness. Even the Deputy Director of this checkpoint who, by the way, has a tendency to help, listens as if he doesn’t intend to ease the situation of the shade.
16:45 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
We observed for about 10 minutes at this quiet checkpoint. We didn’t meet any people on foot, only 4 cars that passed through quickly after the checker, who was busy in conversation with a soldier in the observation tower, found some time for them.
16:55 – Al Ra’adiya (the official name of Hirbat Ra’adiya)
Following a visit to Daher el-Malek, a village that was connected to electricity on August 8, we formed a relationship with A.M., a resident of this tiny village on the Seamline Zone, 500 meters from Daher el-Malek. The village includes 10 families, who live in 8 homes. It is not recognized and not connected to electricity. A.M. speaks fluent Hebrew and holds documents attesting to his attempts to get the village connected to electricity. He asked for our help “as an organization that exemplifies human rights.” He gave us copies of two of his documents. We sat together for about an hour in order to form a strategy on what to do and to whom to turn. We will try to do something with his suggestions. If anyone has an idea, we would be happy to hear it.
In the lovely courtyard of J., A.M.’s brother, wee met another member of the family, Nafah Kaba’a, from Ein el Sela, a Hebrew teacher in an Arab school, who referred us to the texts that he had witten on the Website estaba:”
Https://sites.google.com/a/etz.tzafonet.org.il/etstaba/ktevatseratet
On the third line from the bottom, the text, whose title is “The Strong and the Weak”, describes the difficult experience Nafa had at Shaked (Tura) in 2007.
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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