Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Mon 16.9.13, Morning
Translation: Shelly K.
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6:05 Aanin Checkpoint The first people go through. They say that about 100 are waiting. We don’t see them since the check is conducted below, between the middle gate and the side gate of Kfar Aanin. People are waiting outside of our visibility range. A woman and her son of about 13, arrive. The son is listed in the mother’s ID but did not bring his birth certificate. He rushes back to his house in the village and returns with the document. They pass through. A woman arrives with a baby in her arms. An unusual sight at this checkpoint. People say that they have already applied for the many permits needed for the upcoming olive harvest. They have not yet been received nor have they been notified when the season will begin and the checkpoint gates will be open every day.
7:00 am Tura Shaked Checkpoint The soldiers arrive. Students and teachers also arrive. The pedestrian gates are still locked. At 7:15 they are opened. Passage is quick on both sides. The computer is broken. One person says “I wish it was broken every day.”
7:30 Barta-Riehan Checkpoint, Palestinian side People arrive and crowd into the terminal on their way to the seamline zone. Few pass to the west bank. A resident of Aanin who passes through Barta and has a permit for this checkpoint doesn’t get an agricultural permit for the Aanin checkpoint despite the fact that he has an olive orchard in the seamline zone.
7:50 “Bridge” near Zabde Blocked as usual. The gate is locked on the northern side and stones on the southern side. One of the drivers that earns his living by transporting passengers from the “bridge” to Barta checkpoint explains that the reason for the blockage is the proximity of the “bridge” to the checkpoint. We are traveling to the Military Court in Salem, A report will be issuedseparately. |
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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