Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:30 – Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet and empty as usual; the soldiers sit, bored, in the shed. One car waits for those returning from Jenin. A woman from Daher al Maleck returns from Jenin, loaded with packages. We take her home. She tells us she left in the morning and passed through the checkpoint with no problem.
16:00 – Barta’a Checkpoint
We expected that the activities at the checkpoint would be meager because of the notice that was publicized last week: the workers who left on Sunday, 28.06, would have to remain in Israel for a period of three weeks, including lodging. We found the checkpoint was almost fully active. The parking lots were full of vehicles. The workers that returned from work in Israel told us that because they did not find places to sleep, they are returning home; tomorrow they will leave again.
New transportation arrangements: Workers and most of those who pass through (the checkpoint) leave their vehicles next to the shed in the upper parking lot. There the new sleeve begins (the enclosed passage to and from the checkpoint). Men, women, and children from Barta’a, cross to the West Bank. Several young people who are prohibited from passing through to Israel by the General Security Services– turned to us and we referred them to Sylvia’s staff. One young man told us that his father is old and isn’t able to work anymore in his agricultural plot. He, the man’s son, hasn’t succeeded in obtaining a permit to cross the agricultural checkpoint (a short cut that greatly decreases the way to the field) because the plot is not listed under his name; only under his father’s name.
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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