Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:00 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
There is a lot of commotion in the upper parking lot as many cars come to pick up workers. A large container has been placed next to the road similar to those at A’anin and Tura to protect people from the wind and rain. There is was no rain but it is 3 degrees outside and very cold. The vehicle inspection facility is empty. There is a long line in the lower parking lot that divides into two lines towards the end and leads to the turnstile at the entrance to the terminal. People enter in groups of 35-40 at once. It took one worker a half hour to get from the end of the line to the turnstile. One worker was struck in the face by the turnstile that stopped suddenly as he reached it. There should be a flashing light or buzzer to warn people and we will talk to the checkpoint manager about that. We met our friend B. who works in the carpet factory – once when he was waiting to enter the terminal and again when he was waiting for his son at the exit sleeve ten minutes later. B. reported that his son and many other young people are delayed each morning without any reason before they are allowed to cross. There are six stations operating today at the end of the exit route out of the terminal.
06:55 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
It appears that the gate opened on time. No one is waiting on the other side and people are crossing from one side to the other. There is the usual litter and filth on both sides o the road and there is a pile of garbage around the container that is overflowing. The school children are still on vacation and we didn’t manage to find out when it ends.
Location Description
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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