Jalama, Reihan, Shaked, Tue 25.5.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
This shift was nearly devoid of any exceptional events.
06:00 Reihan Barta'a
The upper parking lot is filled with vans waiting for workers, and the lower parking lot is nearly empty. Three trucks are waiting to be checked. People tell us that the first trucks began to be checked already at 05:30 by mistake. There is light pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Um el Reihan Checkpoint is quiet. After a drive to Hermesh we returned to Reihan Checkpoint. People are arriving and enter the terminal in small groups immediately. At 06:50 there are only a few people coming out of the terminal. It appears that in light of the work situation today, resulting from the lack of permits, it is possible to allow workers to come through here who have to go all the way to Irtah.
7:05 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
A herd of goats crosses to the seamline zone. There are about 15 people waiting next to the turnstile and five vehicles are waiting next to the gate. Small children are crossing through quickly but it appears that it is taking a long time for people to get through the inspection room. Just as we are about to report that this shift was devoid of anything exceptional, someone comes through and says, "Things aren't good!"
At Jalameh a mother and her son are waiting for us. The has burns on his face and we take them to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
At Reihan we also met Yuval Roth, the man behind the project that has nearly eliminated the despair that exists in light of the checkpoints. He is taking a family to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
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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