Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:30 – Tura Checkpoint: “The Fabric of Life”. What a life!!!
In Umm Reihan, which is in the Seamline Zone, there will be a wedding in a few days and the family, who comes from the West Bank, is beginning to arrive in vehicles carrying food for the event. The soldiers say that this food needs coordination and there is a delay at the passage. A car with lights for the event is also delayed. However, a phone call from the District Coordination Office confirms that they do have coordination. In spite of that, the vehicle is delayed for a long time, until they let the car cross the checkpoint.
People return from work in two directions. They tell us that in the morning, they again opened the checkpoint late, by half an hour. Cars with passengers pass in two directions, with no problems.
A resident of Umm Reihan, who passed through in the morning to an oil press in the West Bank, with olives that he picked in his grove, returns now with the product of his labors: 18 containers of olive oil. (This is for private ownership.) The soldiers allow him to pass through with only 4 containers. They demand that he coordinate these containers. (The cost of obtaining a coordination permit to transfer a product is NIS 500.) After more than an hour of phone calls back and forth to the District Coordination Office (in the meantime the soldiers claim that he did not pass through in the morning with olives), the man finally passed through with all the containers.
16:15 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Few people pass through this checkpoint to the West Bank. During the period of all the holidays of Tishrei, there is a closure to workers in Israel (including Hol HaMoed) and only the workers in the Seamline Zone pass through. Families with children and purchases return from Jenin to Barta’a.
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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