Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya’bed-Dotan
8.20 – 6.30
6:30 – Anin checkpoint
A military vehicle as well as a DCO car arrive on site and the checkpoint opens after 5 minutes.
The 2 cars drive down a the area of the checkpoint where inspection takes place.
15 people, 6 tractors (some are loaded with olive plants) come out.
At 6:50 It seems that all had gone through but the gate was still open.
6:55– We left.
7:00 – Tura-Shaked checkpoint
The gate opened at 7:00, but there was still not an orderly passage. Only school children go through.
At 7:10 the schools' principal drive through in his vehicle and teachers from the West Bank go out into the Seam Line zone.
There are only a few people waiting by the carousel at the entrance to the inspection cabin. It turns out that people from the West Bank are led into the inspection area in groups of five at a time.
Quite heavy traffic but smooth passage of vehicles, pupils and people on both sides.
07:30 Barta'a–Rihan checkpoint
At the upper car park there are still many workers who get on Israeli and Palestinian vehicles. It appears that more and more workers use this checkpoint to get to work in the morning.
People who walk up the sleeve tell us that there are problems with the biometric machines and many workers were sent back today. As it turns out that today was a "Censor day" where people who in the last few days did not sign upon returning to the West bank, were not allowed to go to work. The most common complain that we've heard was that often times when the Biometric machine is out of order, workers don't have the patience to wait in the long line to register.
Once more we were approached with the complaint of delays at the Ya'abed-Dotan checkpoint. This checkpoint is located on the main road that leads many workers to Rihan as well as to Sha'ar Ephraim and it is unclear why the army does not to the inspection at the fork of the road leading to Mevoh Dotan.
They claim that our own presence on site, helps.
Another repeated complaint is that the checkpoint opens on Fridays and Saturdays in the morning only at 7:00. And that causes great crowed and lateness at work.
The coffee old peddler at the exit of the sleeve is now banned from selling sweets other than coffee.
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)
Mar-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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