Reihan, Shaked, Sat 1.10.11, Morning
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint 07:30-08:00
There is a lot of traffic – pedestrians, cars, and herds of goats. Crossing is quick but since the inspection booth can hold only one person at a time there is some delay.
There are a few new buildings: a concrete roadblock on the road, one near the inspection point, and one on the above the inspection position.
Several people told us that a woman soldier in the inspection booth was behaving badly. They explained that she was worse than anyone before and one man said that it was all he could do to keep from shouting at her.
Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint – 08:10-09:00
Here, too, there is a lot of traffic in both directions but crossing is quick. One of the people walking past asked us to help his brother. At the end of the conversation we gave him one of the bilingual cards that we had printed recently. This was a good idea and we should have made them sooner. Good for those who made them!
A woman student from Jissar a-Zarka, in Israel, attempted to cross the checkpoint with a lot of belongings, accompanied by her father. She was planning on going to Jenin where she was beginning her fourth year of study. After her father left she got to the window and was told that her permit was no longer valid and th
at she could not cross. We called Sharon, the manager of the checkpoint, who explained that students can only cross the Barta'a checkpoint if they are on a list approved by the university, and he had not yet received this year's list. She might be able to cross at Jalameh. We helped her call her father and left her at the entrance to the sleeve, hopefully she managed to get to Jenin.
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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