Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Tura Shaked Checkpoint, 06:50 – 07:30
It was very rainy and cold outside. Pedestrians and vehicles were already waiting on the West Bank side for the checkpoint to open at 07:00. There were also several army and border patrol vehicles. Meanwhile the soldiers arrived from the seamline zone and opened the gates. The checkpoint opened at 07:00 but the first person came out to the seamline zone side only at 07:10. Several minutes later a caravan of military vehicles came out accompanying a private Palestinian vehicle. We later learned that this was a suspicious car that was caught that was apparently connected to what he had heard on the news about shooting at a military position in the area of Yaabed. At the same time, a group of people who wanted to cross to the seamline zone were detained at the checkpoint. According to Palestinians, these were young people who had attempted to cross the checkpoint without a permit. We have not seen detainees like this for a long time.
Crossing continued slowly, and there were only a few people coming and going.
Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint, 07:40 – 08:10
Here crossing was at its busiest time. The upper parking lot on the seamline zone side was busy and noisy, but it appeared that there were also fewer people here. There were four windows operating in the terminal and we observed that it took people 10 – 15 minutes to cross.
We took the names and details of several people who did not have proper permits and will try to take care of the problem.
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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