Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:05 – Barta'a Reihan Checkpoint
There are only three days left until the end of Ramadan. There are few people at the checkpoint as well as a few vans loaded with agricultural produce. There is plenty of room in the parking lot. We continue on to Emricha to deliver bags of used clothing. We are received with hugs and kisses, which embarrassed us…
We left at 06:50.
07:05 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint is closed and several people are waitihg along with us. We called the Liaison and Coordination Administration and are told that there were "problems" and that they did not know when the checkpoint would open. We were told that two nights ago people were throwing stones and that yesterday the checkpoint opened at 08:00 and after that it intermittently closed and opened again. Workers are going to Jenin by driving around to the Reihan checkpoint. It is expensive, but they want to get to work.
The soldiers arrive at 07:30, but it takes a while before any Palestinians emerge from the checkpoint. Evidently the soldiers' computer was not working.
A young man from Dahar al Malekh reports that the village does not have electricity. There is a generator which is shared by several houses, and it is operated for four or five hours at night. They are not allowed to build a house without approval from the Civil Authorities! A young man who got married recently built a house on the other side of the fence. It is a long low structure, and he has already received demolition orders and is fighting against the authorities.
An old man with a donkey crosses the checkpoint. He is permitted to cross because of his age. A small herd and the shepherd cross. There are different concepts of time here. For the soldiers, nothing is important or urgent when it comes to Palestinians. Others determine how they spend their time and how important things are for them.
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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