Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Tura-Shaked Checkpoint 7:00-7:40
Today is a holiday (Sukkot) in Israel and a regular weekday in Palestine. The checkpoint is already open, there is no line and people and cars pass from side to side without delays. We usually arrive at this checkpoint on Saturdays, and today (Thursday) we discovered that the checkpoint opened at the late hour of seven, not only on Saturdays but also on Thursdays and Fridays. One person tells us that today everything is going fast because we are around… Nice to hear but it is doubtful whether this is true.
Many students arrive in school uniform and backpacks – something we don’t see on Saturdays. However, very few workers pass.
As indicated already, there are areas that underwent flattening and cleaning at the roadside. Today on one of them there are piles of manure and it looks as these are indeed areas intended for agricultural crops such as tobacco, regardless of the army and the administration.
One man speaks to us from his car with the following problem: his right hand has been injured (a work-related accident) and is non-functional, so he keeps it in his sweatshirts’ pocket. That way he appears to be a threat and has been detained many times when he goes to Israel for medical treatments. He wants a kind of permit he could show when required to describe his problem and avoid delays. This morning, the medical certificate testifying to his condition is not on him, only summonses for medical examinations. We agreed that he would call us when he has the medical certificate, and we would photograph it. We welcome advice as to what and how we could make this card for him to facilitate his passage.
On the way to the Barta’a-Rihan Checkpoint a warning light came on in the car, and to avoid getting stuck we arrived at the checkpoint and went back at once, without going up to the inspection post. The upper parking lots near the Reihan Checkpoint were filled with cars and workers waiting for transportation – as they generally are when passage is reasonable. Perhaps the construction at Harish doesn’t stop during holidays and closures.
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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