Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Permits are granted easily to people who work at building Israel, but those who want to cultivate the occupied land are not granted permits.
Tura Shaked Checkpoint – 06:50 – 07:00
The gates to the checkpoint were already open and the soldiers were getting organized ten minutes before the checkpoint was due to open at 07:00. The first person came out at 07:05. Despite the fact that there were few people crossing today, the crossing was slow and the last person in the small group that had been waiting near the turnstile came out only at 07:30.
The reason there are so few people crossing in the last two weeks is that permits are not being granted or renewed. This is part of the land annexation.
The road from Katzir to the checkpoint is being widened and we saw a tobacco field that had been converted into a building site for an unknown purpose.
Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint 07:45 – 08:45
It was very crowded and the upper parking lot was filled with cars and people who had come from all over the West Bank to ride to work. Most of them were workers who are building the city of Harish. Groups of people were coming up from the terminal, where there were three inspection windows operating. As the crossing continued one or two windows closed and when it became crowded again one or two reopened. We could see lines next to the inspection windows. We saw that it took 10 – 15 minutes for people to cross. One man emerged who was very angry because he had asked to bring several kilograms of coffee for an event at the cemetery, but he was told that he was permitted to bring it across only after 09:00. The coffee remained at the checkpoint.
When we left the parking lots were almost empty. It appears that for people building the settlement of Harish there is no problem getting entry permits, but for those who want to cultivate the occupied land, there are many difficulties.
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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