Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
On the way to the checkpoints while driving through heavy rain I was surprised to hear about the litter at Checkpoint 300, which is Tura – Shaked Checkpoint in northern Samaria. Our member, Hannah Heller, was on a talk show and reported that since she had called the garbage container was being emptied before it overflowed, but the litter surrounding it still remained. The program “Yihiheh B’Seder” (It will be OK) on the IDF radio station [a program that helps the public deal with complaints]will continue to follow up about this ecological hazard.
15:50 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint, Palestinian Side
There were a lot of cars in the parking lots and on the road. Some of the workers excitedly told me that yesterday at Yaabed Checkpoint several soldiers “with ear locks” ordered them to get out of their cars with their hands on their heads. “Why?” they asked, more in confusion than in anger.
The new aluminum corral” facility is wet inside and out, and drivers complained that they have nowhere to get out of the rain and wind.
At 16:15 large and small trucks carrying merchandise approached the inspection facility.
16:20 – Hermesh Checkpoint
The checkpoint was open. There were concrete blocks and a sign warning against entry into Area A.
16:30 – Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint
Cars were passing freely between the concrete blocks. There was also a sign here warning against entering Area A.
Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
Many workers were still returning from work in the pouring rain.
16:55 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint was empty of cars and people. At 17:00 a lone car crossed quickly. Four minutes later another car crossed. I could hear the soldiers talking about the menu for dinner – eggs and mashed potatoes.
At 17:06 a 4X4 vehicle arrived and was forced to wait. The checkpoint opened to let it pass at 17:09. A male and female soldier asked the driver asked from a distance if he was carrying anything in back. Evidently he was not and he was allowed to cross to the West Bank. At 17:12 another vehicle arrived. It waited for a minute, the soldiers peeked inside, and it continued on its way.
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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