Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:05 – Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint
Many workers are crowded in the upper parking lot sitting on the curb and waiting for their rides after crossing through the checkpoint. We walked down to the Palestinian
parking lot. There is usually a long line on Sundays but today the line is short and people are entering the turnstile after only seven minutes. Large numbers of people enter the terminal after a short wait. No one is complaining this morning. Most of the people are working in construction building the settlement of Harish. They are pleased to have work. Trucks are waiting for the inspection facility to open at 08:00. Refrigerated trucks are not permitted to cross. We buy coffee from A. who is parked with his motorbike near the line.
06:36 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
When we arrived the soldiers had not gotten to the checkpoint and we wandered freely through the open checkpoint. About 50 people were waiting for the checkpoint to open on the Palestinian side. The soldiers arrived at 06:45 and we asked why they were 15 minutes late. Do they think that the Palestinians’ time is not valuable? To our surprise the commander answered, “You’re right, we were late. We’ll let everyone cross quickly without being checked.” People crossed quickly and commended the soldiers’ attitude. Several vehicles crossed quickly from one side to the other.
Today is the first day of school. Children from the village of Dahar al Malakh, excited and dressed up for school, hurry to the school in the village of Tura on the other side of the fence. A friend of ours who told us that he was not permitted to bring cooked food through the checkpoint from party venues in Um Al Fahem to needy people in Tura is waiting for his ride to work. Meanwhile he gave us some details about an incident at this checkpoint in which a Palestinian woman slapped a woman soldier at this checkpoint and is now awaiting trial.
At 07:20 it appeared that everyone had crossed and we left.
שנת הלימודים מתחילה היום. ילדי דהר אל-מאלח, מטופחים ונרגשים, ממהרים לבית הספר השוכן בטורה, מעבר לגדר.
מכרנו, שסיפר לנו לאחרונה שלא הורשה להעביר במחסום הזה מזון מבושל מאולמות אום-אל-פאחם לעניי טורה, ממתין להסעה שלו ובינתיים מספק לנו מעט פרטים על התקרית שבה פלסטינית כבת 19 סטרה לחיילת במחסום הזה והיא ממתינה למשפטה.
7:20 נראה שכולם עברו ואנחנו עוזבות
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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