Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya’bed-Dotan
14:55 – A'anin Checkpoint
The gates of the checkpoint are already open and the small number of farmers who arrived on this rainy day have crossed. The military policewoman does not permit people to bring used clothing that we brought for the village residents to A'anin. She is unusually rude to both the Palestinians and to us. A rather embarrassed soldier explain that we have to behave according to regulations and that we should remember that they areprotecting us.
15:35 – Tura Shaked Checkpoint
There is nothing new here. There are a lot of fences and facilities at the checkpoint and very few people are crossing.
On our way to Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint we pass by the crowded parking lot at Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint. Everything is as it usually is: The locked gate on the road to Emricha to Yaabed and the bridge blocked from both sides.
16:10 – Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint
To our surprise there is a line of a dozen cars waiting on the western side of the checkpoint. Drivers arriving from Jenin or Yaabed want to drive west towards Barta'a checkpoint or south towards Tulkarem. Cars going in the opposite direction pass through without being checked. Suddenly the drivers who were waiting received orders to cross through. There is a lot of traffic in both directions at this hour. Occasionally a line forms that quickly disappears. Only two cars – one going in each direction – were asked to stop for a quick inspection.
16:40 – Barta'a Reihan Checkpoint, Seamline Zone Side
Many workers are returning from work in Israel and in the seamline zone and pass through the turnstile into the terminal. A few cross from the Wet Bank to the seamline zone.
We left at 17:00. People tell us that we should come to Irtah (Sha'ar Ephraim) in the morning, where thousands of people cross into Israel each day.
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)
Ruti TuvalMar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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