Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Wed 29.5.13, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
Workers are waiting in the upper parking lot for taxis to take them to work. They report that today the checkpoint is operating smoothly, but complain that on Fridays the checkpoint only opens at 07:00 and they consequently arrive late for work.
People are steadily emerging from the terminal into the sleeve. Workers emerge buttoning their shirts and fastening their belts. The terminal is empty – people come out within 4-5 minutes. One of the seamstresses who are coming out tells us that three new factories have been opened in the Shahak Industrial zone: one clothing manufacturer, one for cleaning materials, and one for dietary supplements. It is not yet clear where the workers will come from for the cleaning materials and dietary supplements factories.
Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint on the West Bank side opens at 07:05 and the seamline zone side opens at 07:10. Small children are going to school and crossing quickly. The older children have examinations and leave at various hours during the morning.
At 07:15 soldiers run out of the checkpoint. with their weapons drawn. towards the children who are waiting for their ride to school. Is this an exercise? Is there a suspicious object? We are not sure. Crossing is held up and a crowd forms in front of the turnstile and we hear loud voices. Cars continue to cross in both directions.
At 07:30 things begin to move more quickly again. People coming out on the seamline zone side complain that when they are in the inspection room they are being questioned and detained.
A resident of Um-A-Reihan says that he has begun to grow tobacco this year and needs to bring it to Jenin to be cut and processed, and then bring it back to Um-A-Reihan. He needs a special permit to do this and can receive it only after people from the Liaison and Coordination Administration visit his fields to verify they are really his. So far no one has come, despite their promise. As of now only four people have received such permits.
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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