Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Sun 22.9.13, Afternoon
14:30-15:50
14:30 – 15:50 – Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Laborers and seamstresses are descending the sleeve to the terminal on their way back to the West Bank after their work day. There is a congregation of women behind the turnstile next to the booth for crossing permits. We go in after them. It appears that the registration machinery is not working properly. We see a security guard looking from the position above the terminal and he promises that the matter will be taken care of. After a few minutes people begin to cross through quickly and a woman comes, places her ID on the machine, places her palm, presses a button, and the machine beeps and issues a permit to cross. We peeked into the terminal and saw a lot of people, mostly women and children, sitting on the floor. We were told that today magnetic ID cards are being issued to residents of the seamline zone. We followed the workers to the lower parking lot. The guards would not let us walk back through the vehicle crossing and we were pleased that they asked us to cross through the terminal. We were therefore able to observe the terminal from inside. The women we saw before told us that they had been waiting since 08:00 in the morning – some of them were nursing babies. ON our way out we were told by a security guard that we were not supposed to be in the terminal in the first place.
15:30 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
Everything is quiet and a few people and cars crossed through. The garbage around the large container has still not been removed.
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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