Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
The North,
05:55 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
People leave the terminal and go up through the sleeve to the upper parking lot. The buffet is filled with people who are trying to warm themselves with a cup of coffee and hot burekas. Below, in the lower parking lot, there is no line and anyone who arrives enters the terminal quickly, in groups of 70-80 people. One of the workers tells us that he got through in 10 minutes. In the terminal itself, there is quiet and 6 windows are functioning.
06:25 A large angry group of about 30 people who came out from the terminal, told us that they were taken into a “room with mirrors” and searched them for about 30 minutes. Another 4 people turned to us with a similar story: their sons, ages 20-28, are also stopped every day at the checkpoint and are delayed for about half an hour until they are released, without a reason for why they were stopped. Lately we have heard a number of stories like this.
07:00 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open and people come out slowly to the Seamline Zone. Cars pass without delay from two directions. Children are still on vacation, until Sunday.
they were taken into a “room with mirrors” and searched them for about 30 minutes. Another 4 people turned to us with a similar story: their sons, ages 20-28, are also stopped every day at the checkpoint and are delayed for about half an hour until they are released, without a reason for why they were stopped. Lately we have heard a number of stories like this.07:00 – Sha checkpoint is open and people come out slowly to the Seamline Zone. Cars pass without delay from two directions. Children are still on vacation, until Sunday.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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