Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:35 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
On the way to the checkpoint, we saw Israeli police stop a Palestinian car and inspect the paperwork strictly. The same police car appeared afterward at the Barta’a Checkpoint. A number of cars passed the checkpoint in two directions. Workers returned to the West Bank and women with packages returned from the direction of the West Bank to the Seamline Zone. The passage was quick. Despite the thin traffic, at the exit from the checkpoint, a traffic light was working..
16:00 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Many workers, among them a few seamstresses, went down to the terminal on their way home, after a day of work. Because they don’t have to cross the terminal and they don’t have to go through a biometric inspection anymore, they don’t hurry and walk leisurely.They even stop at the buffet that is still open, for a cup of hot coffee and fresh pastry. Inside the terminal, one inspection window is open, serving a few young people who are returning from the West Bank.
One of those passing through told us that his brother arrive one day at the terminal and discovered that he had forgotten his permit in the car. Since then they are not letting him pass through the checkpoint, even with the permit in his hands. He turned to the District Coordination Office (DCO) and wasn’t accepted there. They told him that he will only be accepted with a “invitation”. In my conversation with the DCO, it turns out that anyone who appears once at the checkpoint without a permit, is registered in the computer as someone who has stayed illegally in Israel (shabah) and therefore he has to renew his permit with the DCO, although there is no need for an invitation.
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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