Reihan, Shaked, Mon 29.12.08, Morning
Translation: Devorah K
06.00 A'anin CP
The crossing has just begun and only three people went through. Below, about forty people are waiting. This is a relatively small number. Those leaving greet us and go on their way quickly. One man complains about the permits not being renewed on time. Soldiers record all the personal details of those going through. On the side of the road, there are about thirty thoroughly wet sacks of sawdust; they were thrown away after somebody was not allowed to transport them.
06.30
About 25 people are still waiting to leave. We left.
06.45 Reihan-Barta'a CP
In the lower parking lot there is only one sleepy driver. About 120 people have already gone through includung the seamstresses and the workers from the Shahak industrial zone in Shaked. Here, too, the number is relatively low. It is possible that the residents are responding to the call for a general strike because of the situation in Gaza. In the CP there is no sign of any special arrangements.
07.05
From the loudspeaker there is a call in Arabic for two pickup trucks to enter for inspection. Only a few cars are going through to the seamline zone.
07.25
We begin to leave but we are detained. A security guard comes up to us and asks if we have given anything to Palestinians. We said that we had given them clothes, as usual. "Only that?" In the end they let us go. The feeling is that we are under persistent surveillance.
07.35 Shaked CP
A few dozen pupils are walking around the area of the CP, which is closed. A., from the DCO, says the "there is an incident." We ask him to let the pupils, who are preparing for a test, go through. He says that he will try, and does let them through. Near the pupils some university students and some teachers are also waiting. On the Tura side there are a few dozen workers. We found out that in the schools the boys and the girls are in separate classes. In two weeks they have tests, and after the tests they will have a mid-year vacation of two weeks.
08.00
The gates of the CP are opened. Pupils race ahead; the adults present their ID cards and go on. From the other side workers go through the hut. On their way to the seamline zone, they pass behind an improvised stone wall that separates the path for vehicles from the path for pedestrians on the margins of an asphalt road. One person who tried to go through on the asphalt road was scolded and made to return to his place so that he would walk exactly in the place that he was expected to. The driver, the owner of the taxi that was detained in the CP last week, says that the people from the General Security Service interrogated him then, but he does not go into detail. There is no particular tension among those going through in either direction.
08.30 Reihan CP (the sleeve)
We are surprised by the large number of people going through in the direction of the seamline zone at this time. People are moving in groups; the procedure is routine and stable. The people are quiet, they do not talk to us except for routine greetings. In the half hour that we stayed there, a few dozen went through in the direction of Barta'a. A lot fewer people went through in the direction of the West Bank.
9.00 We left.
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)
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