Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Sun 1.3.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
6:00-7:20
6:00 – Reihan CP
The upper parking lot is empty – there are no people and no cars. We went down into the sleeve and met only DCO workers and the seamstresses; the farmers and the construction workers did not go out to work today because of the rain.6:20 – Two passenger cars are being inspected in the shed and the passengers are already waiting for them on the other side of the CP where it is freezing. The inspection lasts for about 20 minutes.The terminal is empty and quiet.6:30 – There are no vehicles in the lower parking lot. Five pickup trucks with goods are waiting for inspection; two additional ones are waiting for goods.People who arrive at the terminal enter immediately. A few cars go through from the seamline zone to the West Bank. A resident of Ya'abed told us that he is married to an Israeli woman and he has two children, but he is not allowed to live with his family. He received a police permit to live in Ara but at the same time, the police there harass him very frequently, so at the moment he lives in Ya'abed and must return every day. His wife can visit him only by coming through the distant Taibeh CP. In 1996, when he asked to be allowed to live with his family, the General Security Service proposed that he collaborate with them. When he refused, his request was rejected. They told us that in Kafin many houses were flooded and the Palestinian police took care of the people who were evacuated.
6:50 – Shaked CP
The CP is still closed but the soldiers are already there. Four cars are waiting to go through to the seamline zone, but we do not see any people. Apparently they are hiding from the cold. At 7:00, the CP opens and immediately ten people enter the turnstile. The cars enter one by one for a short inspection. The first people to go through emerge from the inspection room after four minutes. 7:15 – Students and pupils are beginning to arrive, but we leave for Jalameh.
7:50 – Jalameh CP
Here too there are very few people going through today because of the rain. We take a patient to Rambam and the family reports to us that the passage was quick.
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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Jalama
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North of Jenin, on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank. A big terminal for the passage of Palestinians with permits allowing entrance into Israel and goods into Israel operates there. In the course of 2009 the terminal was opened for the passage of Israeli Arabic citizens into the West Bank. Since October 2009 they may pass in their cars.
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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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