Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Marcia L, Translation
05:55 – 07:30
05:55 – Barta’a Checkpoint
Despite the closure, the checkpoint is already open as usual at 05:55. The seamstresses pass through (most of them) along with people who have agricultural permits and permits to work in the industrial zone of Shahak or Barta’a. The parking lots are empty; trucks carrying merchandise are waiting for the inspection station to open. In the terminal, 6 inspection windows are open. The slight traffic flows quickly. Seated next to me is a manager of a marble factory in Barta’a, who has passed through the checkpoint and is waiting for two of his sons, who work with him, to exit. He asks if I believe that there will be peace. All he wants is to work so he could earn enough money to build a home for his sons and marry them off. Residents of Barta’a and night-shift workers in Shahak pass through from the Seamline Zone to the West Bank.
06:30 – Tura Checkpoint
The soldiers come and open the checkpoint. On the West Bank side, there are already workers and 3 cars. The passage through the checkpoint begins at 06:40 and 5 minutes after that the first workers and cars leave the checkpoint. The passage is especially slow. In all, 30 workers and 14 cars pass through to the Seamline Zone and 5 cars to the West Bank. One of the people with whom we are acquainted tells us about the choking feeling of the West Bank; another tells us that sometimes the soldiers (especially the Druze), scheme against the high school students who have no identity cards, delay them, and inspect them at the checkpoint.
07:15 – The students begin to arrive and pass through the checkpoint quickly without any problems.
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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