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Reihan, Shaked, Fri 6.1.12, Afternoon

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Detainees
Observers: Rachela C.
Jan-06-2012
| Afternoon
 
Mini shift: I was visiting in Daher-el-Malec (Friday noon) and after leaving B.'s house I drove to the nearby checkpoints – Shaked and later to Riehan.
 
14:40 – 14:55 Shaked checkpoint
Windy and cold!!! it seem that a lot of rain fell. Outside: 2 female soldiers (Military Police), 2 male soldiers – one at the elevated post another inside the shed.
During the time I stood there one car crossed in the direction of Tura. and I've heard of someone, a resident of Daher-el-Malec, who had arrived from Ya'abed and was detained for a long time at the checkpoint until she was let through.
 
15:05 – 15:20 Reihan checkpoint
A Palestinian car parked in front of the inspection post. its driver sits at the "amusement park".
When I left the car was still at that same point, its driver inside. Many workers arrive in cars bearing yellow plates. at this time the seamstresses had arrive.
Entry to the terminal is in groups of five and the turnstile keeps stopping (there's always someone stuck in it). The line is not too long. While I was there two windows were open. About 10 people set by the side. Before I left I watched them walking in the direction of the far window, perhaps they were called there. One of the people who waited outside the turnstile explain to me that when people return to the West Bank with no passage permit (Illegal aliens) they are punished by one to two hours' detention and then they undergo inspection. Cars with yellow plates go through without delays.
The rain has stopped, the skies are clear, the sun is out, vision is clear in all directions, the view is outstanding. Looking from the road one can see the ongoing building in the settlement of Riehan. At Um-el-Rihan I could observe a new unfinished chicken coop. I was told that construction has been interrupted. By whose order???

  • 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).

  • 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)
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