Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:05 – Shaked-Tura checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet. 4 individuals and vehicles cross over from the West Bank into the Seam Line zone.
15:30 – Reihan- Barta'a checkpoint
A heavy stream of workers arrives from the Seam Line zone and Israel and crowding begins. The reason for that is that only one biometric machine is operative and within a few minutes it is out of order. Confusion by the machines and the turnstile grows.
According to some of the people, yesterday, too, only one machine worked and it was a mess. We try appealing to the terminal's workers by they turn their backs on us.
At 16:05 we called the deputy manager of the checkpoint, R. and he arrive after ten minutes and fixed the machines.
At the lower car park are there was a rumor that the machines were fixed and the many workers who had just went through without stamping their papers, went back to save themselves problems next time they have to go through the terminal. "Is this what you call life" remarked one of them. Whoever didn't stamp his passage permit could be subjected to future problems.
16:25 Matters had calm down by the machines but the lines were still very long. Time of waiting by the machines is about 10-15 minutes per person.
Workers who get out in the morning from the infamous Irtach checkpoint tell us that renovations there haven't been finished. There are not enough windows and the crowding is terrible.
People complain that the lower bar of the turnstile injures their legs, asking us to help in that matter.
Throughout our shift individuals and families returned from the West Bank to Barta'a.
17:00 We left while many workers were still waiting in line by the machines.
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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