Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Sun 26.6.11, Morning
Translation; Bracha B.A.
06:00
We passed Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint on our way to the Mevo Dotan checkpoint via Emricha. People were moving through the checkpoint and three trucks were waiting for their second inspection on the side of the road. Three other trucks with their cargo wrapped in blue plastic were already inside the parking area.
We drove past Emricha, the Bedouin village where people appear to be the neediest. For this reason we prefer to leave bags of used clothing there. We stopped next to a house where we heard a radio playing and left the clothes outside without going in.
Mevo Dotan Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open and the soldiers have not yet arrived, and cars are driving through freely. A paper sign pasted on a building says something about the designated zone, refering to the Jewish orthodox custom of fencing off an area where people are permitted to walk to on the Sabbath. We have seen signs like this in other places near Tayasir Checkpoint where there are religious soldiers.
Smoke is rising from some of the charcoal factories in the area.
Reihan Checkpoint
We noted how long it takes for people to get through the terminal. It took 5-10 minutes. Bassem, who works in Shaked, says that it sometimes takes as long as an hour and takes longer on Saturdays.
He feels this is because the manager is not there on Saturdays and the clerks are not doing their best on the job ande being lazy. During the half hour that we observed the activity in the sleeve and the vehicle checkpoint, the gates to the vehicle inspection facility opened twice and each time three vehicles came, including vans with eggs and other merchandise. These vehicles took less time to be checked. The truck check begins at 05:45 and each group of trucks takes an hour to an hour and a half to check and take the cargo off to examine, remove the plastic, and put it back on again. The plastic is removed and replaced and trucks are unloaded and loaded by Palestinian workers. We saw a large truck with two cargo containers being checked and dogs were sniffing the containers and the flexible mirror was being used underneath it. .
Shaked Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened precisely at 07:00 and traffic moved through smoothly in both directions. The first people crossed through within four minutes. There are no school children or students because summer vacation has begun.
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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