Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05:35 Barta`a Riehan Checkpoint
A steady flow of people who work in the seamline zone exit the checkpoint. Most said that the situation was "OK" this morning. According to some, passage took about half an hour since there were many people in the terminal.
A man approached Lea. His brother was refused a pass and he wonders why. Lea gave him Tammy’s phone number from the team that assists those who are refused passes to investigate why.
Another person was delayed at the terminal near the clerks since they delayed his son. Yet another approached us asking us to investigate why he has been refused a pass for a week. Lea called the Liason & Coordination Administration but did not get an answer. She gave him Tammy’s phone number as well.
07:00 We left.
07:05 Tura Shaked Checkpoint
It’s quiet. No activity. Schoolchildren pass us and smile; we give them sweets.
07:30 Returning to Barta`a Riehan
We pick up Ali and his mother for treatment at Rambam Hospital, Haifa. We arrived at Rambam at around 9:00
Personal Observation:
Since this is the first time that I joined the shift as a member of Machsom Watch I would like to add a few words:
1. For the first time I witnessed how the checkpoints operate (although I learned that all are not the same). I got the impression that the Riehan Checkpoint operated today with no unusual problems. I was impressed with the warmth and friendliness of the Palestinians toward us. Most greeted us with a smile and Shalom. There were some whose faces lit up when they saw us. Someone approached me, shook my hand and noticed that I was “new.”
2. The children who passed through the Tura/Shaked Checkpoint were sweet and happy.
3. It is not easy to witness the series of checks and delays that people must go through on their way to work.
4. Transporting the palestinian boy Ali to the hospital in Haifa was for me a moving experience. The child is very ill. Hardly walks. And this transport (for some years by now) allows him to get to the Israeli hospital regularly.
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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