Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Note: On our way to the checkpoint we observe a large area which has been prepared for construction in the settlements of Chinanit and Tel Menashe. Who said there was no low-cost building going on?
06.10 Barta’a- Reihan Checkpoint
The upper car-park is almost empty of workmen. Most of them had
already left for work. There are many vans waiting for passengers, who continue to exit the checkpoint, many of them very young.
06.25 Inside the terminal, only one window is operating and there is a lot
of congestion next to it. The outgoing people are in a hurry but some of them pause to complain to us about the hold-up next to the biometric scanner. At 06.35 another window is opened.
A workman who has a permit to work in Israel with a contractor at Lehavot Chaviva is waiting for his employer. According to him, he goes to work every day via the Rechan checkpoint but today he wasn’t allowed to pass, and he was sent to Irtah (Taibeh).
06.50 It is still crowded and noisy; again, only one window is operating.
07.03 Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
The gate is opened, and all those waiting – about 50 – enter and crowd about the turnstile. The first one is released to the open space at 07.08, and people exit quickly. The first vehicle coming from the occupied territories enters at 07.10 and leaves within two minutes. All the vehicles pass through, one after the other, without any problems. School-children are on vacation, and some of them pass through to the seam-line area and don’t go into the inspection room. A female soldier on the path “interviews” them. By 07.25 most of the people have passed through.
We return to the Reihan checkpoint to pick-up two patients and take them to hospital. Only one has waited for us. The other one, who due for tests before an operation, had a permit for the Jalama checkpoint, but was not allowed to pass at Reichan, even though it was specifically written on the humanitarian permit and in his paperwork that he was travelling to hospital. The first one was lucky to pass with the permit he had through two checkpoints. Today, he was on his way to an examination following his operation, but when he got to the vicinity of Hadera he was informed that the examination had been postponed until next month. He continued with us, because in a case like this it is necessary to bring new documents from the hospital for the civil administration to extend the humanitarian permit, and ni addition he has no way to return to the checkpoint.
He also tells us that his operation was on Sunday and he was supposed to be at the Rambam hospital on Saturday. Despite the humanitarian permit he was not allowed to pass through the Jalama checkpoint because of the Sabbath, and was forced to go to Reihan, where apparently it was permitted to desecrate the Sabbath.
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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