Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:00 Barta’a-Rehan Checkpoint
Many people have already passed through and many more are coming up from the terminal. They pass and then wait for transport. In the courtyard, there is a very long queue. More than a hundred people enter at once and the line grows anew when more and more people arrive. They are building the Land of Israel. A driver chats with us: he has nine sons. I asked if he also had daughters; yes, three daughters. He has also eight grandchildren, he loves them all and for them all to visit him. There is room for all. He particularly likes the little ones.
A young man complains that he is not permitted to pass, although his permit shows that he is should go through without a magnetic card. A phone call to the DCO does not help; there is no officer, no one to talk to.
Anna sent a safety car seat to the driver who had been fined because his small child did not sit on one.
06:45 Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint opens now, instead of at 06:30. About 50 people are waiting to enter. For the “upper crust,” all is permissible. Passage was very slow, people coming out one at a time and very slowly. There is no one to ask why. Everyone is clearly very angry. A man passes with a wagon hitched to a donkey. He sends us a friendly smile. A cart passes with a galloping horse – pleasant sight and sound.
07:30 We leave. We did not manage to visit A’anin, for which we are sorry.
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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