Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:00 BARTA'A Checkpoint
The fog on the way delays us. The checkpoint is full of people. We were afraid that as a result of the news about IDF activity in Jenin we will feel tention, but Jenin was not mentioned. Some of the people complain about the long time it takes to go through the checkpoint, others say "o.k.", a non commited phraze, and I think it is cynical, in a sort of forced acceptence. There are 13 trucks waiting on the road loaded with agricultural merchendise.
07:00 TURA checkpoint
There is nobody there. From the other side we hear many people. The teacher arrives by his car. Four more cars, pupils, but the soldiers are nowhere to be seen. The arrive at 07:15. 5 more minutes and the gate opens. A young tire man who has returned from a tiring night shift, standing on his feet all night long, yearning to get to bed. The children go through. An old man arrives with his dondey: "it is difficult, difficult". A man who went through is complaining :"What are you doing here anyways?" A man who brings tobacco from this side into the west bank is complaining that they cause him trouble all the time about the tobacco. DCO, phone calls, he is sweating, wiped out, yesterday too there were troubles, through the whole week actually, do something. A shepherd was forced to clean the road after his sheep! A young man says: a soldeir is playing with his smartphone, that must be fascinating, and I have to wait in the meanwhile. He tells us about a continuous abuse in the population. A soldier aimed his gun at a pregnent woman,m and she had a miscarriage. The same guy was arrested a few times by the soldiers who put handcuffs on him and blindfolded his eyes. When he asked them why, they said – because we want to. This is his story. "Ihave stories – plenty" and he shows us how many by spreading his arms. A worker who went through tells us that one morning he went through too late and missed the transportantion. He missed a day of work. He sais: "When you ar here the soldiers don't annoy us. He tells us that he wants to get married byt he has no money. Many complaints about DCO. In order to renew the permit to go through the checkpoint one has to wait 5 hours in line, and then they close the window and they didn't get there. Yhe next day they come and experience the same thing. "If you have no luck it can take a few days". An older person sais that he is the head of the village (The Muchtar) since the time of the Jordanians. He has no energy to work the land, and they don't give his children permit to get to the family lot near the checkpoint. It is sad
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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