Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint 06:00
The upper parking lot is full of workers and most of the seamstresses have already crossed. This means that crossing today is proceeding quickly and orderly. Today we report that the crossing is "going well" and people are moving through the machine quickly, although people are also waiting next to the windows.
People complain about the opening hours during the holiday and on the eve of the holiday. The checkpoints only opened at 07:00, despite the fact that for most people it was a regular workday. People lost work hours, and the checkpoints were also crowded because of the late hour. Women, who do not have a separate entrance, were uncomfortable being crowded together with the men and protected themselves by poking people away.
We were told that a new factory has opened in Barta'a which employs 17 workers sewing parachutes.
There are fewer cars passing through the checkpoint at this hour and workers are mostly dependent upon taxis from Barta'a.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint – 07:00
The checkpoint is not open yet and only the children are crossing.
At 07:07 the c
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kpoint opens and workers enter from the West Bank. Passenger cars arrive from both sides and begin to cross at 07:12. Students cross to the West Bank without being checked.
At 07:15 a resident of Daher El Malech arrives with a mare and a newborn foal. The mare is sick. There is no veterinarian in the seamline zone and he wants to see a veterinarian who is waiting for him on the other side of
the checkpoint, to give the mare an injection.
although he can cross the checkpoint, he is not allowed to bring the horses through until he receives a permit from the Liaison and Coordination Administration. The soldiers refused to speak to us about this. After three phone calls to the Liaison and Coordination Administration the permit came at 08:15 and the veterinarian gave the mare her injection.
At 07:30 it is still crowded near the turnstile on the West Bank side and the children and the children continue to cross to go to school.
At 07:40 teachers cross without waiting in line and drive to the school at Um-A-Reihan.
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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