Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05:45 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
There is a great tumult in the upper parking lot. There are many cars and taxis to pick up the workers. Inside the new shelter next to the road, workers wait for rides. Cars exit from the inspections area. I buy coffee from the owner of a small stand that is some distance away from the checkpoint, almost to the junction. He complains that his business has been hurt because of where he is situated. Alia joins at 06:00 and we go down to the parking lot on the Palestinian side where there is still a lot of space. One line of people spreads to the building that houses the new bathrooms. This morning the checkpoint is less crowded than on other Sunday mornings; perhaps because of the rain? The inside traffic of people is carried out at a steady pace but from time-to-time, the security guard who controls the turnstile, “invites” someone arbitrarily and in a vulgar tone, to empty the contents of his bag on the counter and to tell the guard where the worker is going. One time the guard even locked the second turnstile, causing people to “pile up” between the two turnstiles. At 07:00, there is a short line of about 30 people and we leave. On the way we are told that at the Yabed checkpoint that morning, there is no delay and that as far as the deep holes in the road permit, the traffic flows.
07:10 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
There is a lot of traffic. Cars bring passengers to the checkpoint and take them from there to the Seamline Zone. A vehicle arrives from the single home and brings children, some of whom study in Tura and some of whom study in Umm-Reihan. The last ones wait for transportation. Children from Daher el Malec climb energetically from their village to the checkpoint, go through the sleeve and cross the checkpoint straight to the second gate. They joyfully pass through to Area A (controlled by the Palestinian Authority) as if there is nothing more joyful than that.
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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