Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Sun 29.5.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Dotan Checkpoint, 08:30-08:50
The soldier at the checkpoint asked who we were and we showed him our tags. He wished us luck. Either he really wished us well or he did not really read the tags we showed him. Cars pass through three at a time in each direction and the soldiers stop them briefly, peek inside, and they continue on their way.
Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint, 09:00 – 09:45
On our way to Reihan we passed through Emricha and saw an ass and its foal, and gave one of the women there three packages of used clothing. We were embarrassed at her profuse and excited expressions of thanks. Sami, the Bedouin whom we met at Reihan, on the other hand has demands: He has one television set and wants another for his children. He has 20 and looks no older than 30. No he has no work. What's to be done? Allah will see to us.
The parking lot is crowded with cars. We watched three pedestrians enter the terminal and come out the other side in about five minutes.
A mobile medical clinic that we had seen administering medical treatment in Emricha a few minutes before emerged from the vehicle inspection area. The driver opened the gate himself and reported that only today things had gone quickly, and continued on his way to other villages in the seamline zone.
At 09:30 three trucks with agricultural produce emerged. The Palestinian workers who unload and reload produce after it is inspected opened the gate for us and waved to us in greeting. The vehicle inspection facility is standing but has no roof yet. There is a structure that looks like a wedding hall and we saw a white lily in flower in the garden nearby.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint, 09:55-10:05
We wanted to see what would happen if the gates were about to close and someone came running to try and get through at the last minute, as sometimes happens at A'anin, but it did not happen.
There is a new group of soldiers and none of them seem to know what’s going on. All three gates are locked until 12:00 when the children return from school.
We spoke to the head of the Liaison and Coordination Administration about the need to open the checkpoint at 06:00 in the morning. He explained that the hours had been agreed upon with the heads of the villages of Um A-Reihan and Dar al Malak, and that there was only a budget to open the checkpoints for three hours in the morning. If they wanted it open at 06:00, it would have to be closed at 09:00.
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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