Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya'bed-Dotan
15:15 – Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
Despite the fact that practically no one comes through this checkpoint at this hour of the day, a car that arrived had to wait 8 minutes until the soldiers opened the checkpoint and finally let the passengers cross. Meanwhile the soldiers were chatting with each other, laughing, and shouting. We noticed a group of women on the Palestinian side. They were a 90-year-old mother and her daughters. The elderly mother was unable to walk through the sleeve to cross the checkpoint, and after numerous telephone calls and talking the woman was eventually allowed to cross by car and travel to Dahar al Malek. One of the daughters lives in Germany and speaks fluent German.
16:15 – Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint
A military vehicle, parked on the road, was supervising traffic. There were no traffic jams along the road, like the ones last week, and traffic was flowing freely. A civilian car arrived and a soldier got out and joined the soldiers in the pillbox. The checkpoint was not manned on the road and cars drove through without being checked.
16:20 – Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint
We returned to Reihan–Barta’a Checkpoint and parked in the parking area for trucks because all the other parking lots were crowded at this time of day. There was a large crowd of people next to the single turnstile, which served both people entering and exiting.
A man approached us to ask for help. He has been banned by the police from entering Israel. This means that he is on a list of people who cannot receive a permit that needs to be renewed every few months or a special permit for several days. Such people cannot enter Israel to work, do business, or visit families. We gave him a phone number where he could ask for help.
The sleeve on the side of the seamline zone was filled with workers returning home.
There were many squills [an autumn wildflower] in bloom alongside the road.
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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