Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked, Ya’bed-Dotan
12:00 Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
It is hot, dry, and quiet. Clothing items that people were not allowed to take across are scattered in the shed and on the bench next to the checkpoint. The entire area is filthy. The garbage container is open. An Israeli car drives up quickly and a woman gets out and enters the inspection booth. Perhaps she is from the Liaison and Coordination Administration. There is something authoritative in the way she permits herself to use the checkpoint. A few cars go through.
We left at 12:30.
We drove past Reihan–Barta'a on our way to Emricha to distribute clothing.
12:45 – Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint
There is a lot of traffic in both directions. The soldiers are stopping cars and checking papers and talking with the passengers. Usually they do not stop every vehicle here or check. There is possibly a change in policy because of the overall situation. Here, too, the sides of the road are filthy. An army jeep stops and they ask what we are doing. The guy knows Ruthi but not me. We introduce ourselves. He suggests that we wear hats because of the hot sun.
Workers are coming home early because of Ramadan. One of them explains that he has crossed at Jalameh at 05:30 and is coming back through Yaabed. We left at 13:00.
13:10 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lots are completely filled and there is a line of cars parked along the road. A double garbage truck is standing at the checkpoint, returning from the Occupied Territories. The truck is being meticulously checked. Evidently it is forbidden to bring garbage into Judea and Samaria. There is a sign explicitly saying so. It is, however, possible to disobey the rule and present a license.
We descend the fenced-in sleeve to the terminal. Workers are returning from work and the kiosk is closed.
We left at 13:35.
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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