Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
06:05 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
At 06:20 the order to enter in fives is no longer enforced and people enter freely.
At 07:25 I timed a person who entered the checkpoint from the West Bank. He emerged on the seamline zone side after 15 minutes.
The coffee vendors are already very busy. M.Z. tells me that his son is being detained inside. This has happened often despite the fact that at the Liaison and Coordination Administration they were told that he was cleared.
Several minutes later N., who is in charge of the checkpoint, sees me from inside the terminal. He is accompanied by a security guard. He approaches me and I ask him about Z. He explains that Z. is not being detained, but rather he was sent to the Liaison and Coordination Administration because he was previously banned from entering Israel for forging permits.
At 06:45 the flow of people slows down and the voice of the supervisor on the other side can be heard throughout the checkpoint. A lot of workers are waiting for rides to work.
07:07 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The soldiers are getting ready to open the checkpoint. School begins today and the children from the Lone House, located on the side of the security fence near the settlement of Shaked but belonging to the village of Tura on the Palestinian side, are the first to go to school. For some reason they are sent to the inspection room. The other children will cross through the vehicle crossing and not through the fenced-in sleeve for pedestrians.
The litter in the sleeve from last week is still there. A soldier tells me, "It's theirs," and points to an aluminum pan with a Hebrew newspaper in it. He promises to clean up the mess.
At 07:30 the banker arrives with three schoolchildren. His brother, the children's father, arrives with his small son and watches from a distance "just to make sure that everything is OK with them and there are no problems at the checkpoint."
At 08:05 we hear music from the direction of Tura followed by an excited speech, probably the school principal. I wonder what he is telling the children for the opening of this school year. I ask someone and he reports that they don't talk to the children about Gaza, and don't allow them to watch television. "It's not for children," he says. He tells how his house in Dahar el Malakh was demolished because it was built without a permit. "What permit? The entire checkpoint is sitting on my land. It's all s^^t."
At 08:20 three more students cross through. The checkpoint is fixed and I left.
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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