Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:10 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
In the parking lot on the Palestinian side, we saw two very long lines of young workers, most of them working in construction in Harish City. Pleasant, quiet,
they move in a steady stream through the only turnstile at the entrance of the terminal. Palestinian attendants, with clubs and smiles, keep the order. Someone volunteers to stop the movement in the direction of the turnstile to allow a change in direction, so that three workers returning from their night shift in the Seamline Zone, can pass through to their homes in the West Bank.
At 07:00 there was hardly any line, and anyone who arrived passed through with no waiting. Two children, about 10 and 11, clean the filthy parking lot under the supervision of their father. We waited a long time for a man who had requested that Elia pay his traffic fine for him. However, Elia wasn’t able to do this because a ticket given in the Occupied Territories doesn’t show ion the computers in Israel. The fine must be paid at the post office in the settlement of Beit El. In order to return the ticket and give the money to the man, we waited for him until 07:50 and therefore missed the children’s passing at Tura Checkpoint.
07:50 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
Light traffic at the checkpoint. Two older pupils recite from their notebooks on their way to a test. We picked up a teacher who was obviously late for her transportation and we let her off in time for school in Umm Reihan.
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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