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Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Yochi U and Ruthy T (Reporting)
Oct-05-2014
| Afternoon

 

15:00 Tura-Shaked CP
Families with children dressed up for the holiday go through on both sides of the CP. A DCO vehicle is in the area.
15:10  "Guys! The SADAK* arrived!"  Three soldiers arrive and are greeted with applause and hand-shakes. They have come to replace three others.
 
A new polished 4×4 Jeep waits near the soldiers at the entrance to the CP. Its owner, an elegant young man, carries on negotiations for a long time and in the end goes back with his car – and also with his wife and small daughter. We talked to them. It turned out that they are tourists from Jordan and arrived in their car. They have an Israeli visa, are staying in Jerusalem, but they do not have the addendum for the West Bank. They have no relatives in Israel or on the West Bank. Now they are hurrying to get back to Jerusalem.
 
Somebody who goes through here daily tells us that this morning he discovered that two children were not allowed to go through to the seamline zone with their parents. The man himself went through now with his wife and his children on the order of the DCO officer who is in the area.
 
15:55 Barta'a-Reihan CP
Men dressed in white shirts go down in the direction of the terminal. The road that leads to the CP – is empty of trucks and the parking lot is also free. Here too festive families come and go.  Hadi, limping, greets us. Y. from Mavo Dothan, who used his cellular phone while driving fast, enters in  his old Subaru; he  drove Hadi's car (reverse) into a road guard and and crushed it  from behind, so that it was crushed also in front and on its right side. The settler, Y. has no insurance at all. "He grabbed his head" Hadi told us and paid him NIS 6000 but Hadi's knee is hurt and Y. refuses to pay for treatment. Hadi has hard things to say about the condition of the hospital in Jenin and about the health services on the West Bank altogether. If I understood him correctly – his father has the money that he received and he cannot pay NIS500 for  the x-rays, money that will be returned by the Palestinian Authority after a month or two. The people all around, the drivers, laugh and claim that he is putting on  a show. How can you know? The car is in the parking lot.
 
M.A. wants a permit to take his children,  aged 10 , 8 and 2, to the seashore theday after tomorrow. He himself has a  permit to work in Israel, as a tradesman. His son asked him, "What, we can see Jews? They won't kill us?" "I want to show them that Jews are also human beingsl" says M. We will try to help him.tomorrow. If somebody has helpful information in relation to this matter – they are invited to write me.
 
16:50 We left
 
*extraordinary order of forces

  • 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).

  • 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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