Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Sat 2.11.13, Morning
6:55 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
The site is open since 6:00.Young people await pickup for the olive picking. Salary is 170Nis per 8 hours of work. One of them who has been teaching himself Hebrew, tells us that unlike other days, today the checkpoint runs ok. He is interested in our Web site.
An officer approaches us, complains that he has received a negative notice in a report (his name was not mentioned), claiming that he is not familiar with the opening hours of the A'aneen checkpoint. He says :"There are soldiers here that are close to you ideologically but your reports hurt them". He speaks for himself saying that he is dedicated to Israel's security despite the fact that serving at the checkpoints is not the greatest pleasure for him. He tries his best to be considerate with the local residents.
He spoke in a friendly manner with a driver from Daher-el-Malec who is marring off his daughter and the joyous sounds coming out of his home reach the checkpoint. Yesterday the soldiers received sweets from the celebration. He adds :"There is nothing like Palestinian food". But they are not allowed to receive cigarettes from Palestinians; there is a penalty for that.
07:45 Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Amgad and his daughter Mary are waiting at the Palestinian car park. They came early than usual today because they used a taxi from Jenin that charges only 10nis for the both of them. The car park is full. People enter the terminal without delays. Many come out from the upper sleeve, on the other side.
A few pickup trucks wait on the road for inspection tomorrow morning. I park at the trucks inspection area. It is vacant today and Mary is being inspected with all her equipment – wheel chair, walker, and a shield which covers her from neck to feet. All recognize her and she smiles at everyone. In the meantime I observe the dog keeper. He inspects together with the dog 6-7 vehicles. Drivers wait in a separate area. According to them inspection takes about 10 minutes. Other say' 20.
08:15I take Amgad and Mary to Um-el-Fachem to the center for children's development. Every Saturday Mary receives an hour and a half treatment of physical therapy and another half-hour treatment with a communication specialist.. Her father says that she is happy there.
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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