Mevo Dotan (Imriha), Reihan, Shaked, Tue 24.7.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
07:07 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open on the side of the village and we see about 30 people, but they are not going in. Soldiers are instructing them to go back and around. Evidently there is no electricity in the inspection facility and people have to go through the vehicle gate. They must be frisked, remove their belts, and have their documents checked. One of the men asks "What if my pants fall down?"
A young man and women with a baby carriage cross from the seamline zone to the West Bank. A transport vehicle waited until all had passed through and took them to work. One more private car passed through and the checkpoint was silent. The children are on school vacation and the adults are at home because it is the fast of Ramadan and fewer people are going to work.
07:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lot is not full yet. People arrive and immediately go through the gate without delay. Mahdi is not here with his coffee stand – it is Ramadan and people are fasting. There is no work and there are no trucks waiting to be checked. Drivers are waiting for passengers but practically none arrive. It is not and there is no work.
08:10 – Yaabed Dotan Checkpoint
The checkpoint is already manned. There is a lot of traffic in both directions. Drivers going to Jenin are waved through, while drivers going towards the seamline zone, Kafin, or Tul Karem are briefly checked by conducting a short conversation or showing documents, but the soldiers' rifles are on their shoulders and can be quickly aimed if needed. It looks threatening. As Supreme Court Judge Edmond Levy says, there is no occupation, but this is what life is like here
Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint 08:20
A car loaded with merchandise which we saw at Dotan Checkpoint is already waiting in line to be checked, but there are several cars, which have entered the inspection facility, whose papers were checked a half hour earlier. By the time we left three trucks/tenders were waiting in line. Traffic is moving smoothly.
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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