Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
It was a wet cold morning and we were greeted by rain and hail as we drove to the checkpoint. When we arrived it was beginning to get light and the weather began to change.
05:45 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
To our surprise there was not a long line on the Palestinian side of the checkpoint, and only several dozen people were waiting. The turnstile opened twice to let only about 17 people in but later it opened for longer periods of time and everyone who arrived and those waiting entered immediately. Two people told us about family members who had not received permits, and we gave them phone numbers to seek help and wished them good luck.
06:10 – Many people are waiting on the seamline zone side for rides to work. We walked down the sleeve to the entrance to the terminal and workers who have finished their work on the night shift in the Shahak Industrial Zone walk into the terminal. There are six windows operating inside the terminal and people exit quickly. Many stop at the kiosk that belongs to the settler from Hermesh and enjoy coffee and cakes on their way to work.
06:35 – A’anin Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened on time and about 20 people and a tractor had already crossed. By the time the checkpoint closed at 07:00 about 40 additional people, including several women and three more tractors had crossed.
07:10 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
We were told that the checkpoint only opened at 07:05 and not at 06:30 as it is supposed to. There did not appear to be a long line next to the turnstile and the inspection facility. School children arrived and crossed to school in Tura, the Palestinian village on the other side of the checkpoint. Children from the “lone house” that belongs to the village of Tura but is located outside the fence surrounding the village arrive in a muddy car and cross to school in Tura.
07:25 – The sun is dazzling making it difficult to see the children who are walking along the road. The checkpoint is filled with various facilities and equipment, but there is no concern for their safety. We left.
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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