Barta’a/Reikhan, Tura Shaked, Saturday 30.03.13 morning
Translation: Yael Bassis-Student
7:15A border police truck stops two bicycle riders on the road going up to Kazir; the riders turn around and continue cycle slowly up the hill. The truck drives slowly behind them, and we follow them. Due to the slow drive we gave up our wish to see where the Border Police takes them and sped up.
07:30 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
When we arrived, 8 people sat in the waiting shed. Vehicles arrived and picked them up to work. Most of those crossing over come from the direction of Tura in the West Bank into the Seam Line zone. One person approached us with a well-known problem; He works as a painter and does some repair work in a school at Um-el-Rihan, as well as in Shaked and Hinanit. He showed us a special permit for that, which is about to expire within a month. Today he was told that he couldn't cross "Because you haven't gotten back last night, but since today is a holiday, I'll let you through" . He says that from time to time he is told, out of the blue, that he can't go through and is sent to the DCO to renew his papers, despite the fact that his papers are valid! Usually it happens when there is no registration on his return from the Seam Line zone to Tura. He thinks that it comes as punishment for the fact that they are not listed properly. It has to do with the soldiers' handwritten reports, when the computer is down. Therefore he and others are listed not returning on the same day as when they went out. As stated above, this results in their permits being taken away for a period of one month or more.
The trip to the DCO is a full day's event, at time the soldier is not there, at other times he just went out and is about to return, :"wait, wait, wait" and at the end of the day they are told: "Go home and come back tomorrow".
08:10– We left as the herd of goats came closer to the gate from the side of Tura.
08:20 Barta'a-Rihan checkpoint
Daylight saving time is in effect at the Occupied Territories , same as in Israel. Passage time today is relatively short – 10 minutes.
There aren't too many people, corridors seem empty and the usual sounds are not heard.
Those coming out of the terminal holding, their belts, appear relaxed and no one complains of crowding.
We shouldn't ne mislead – the occupation in its ugliness and brutality is still here.
08:45 We left.
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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