Reihan, Shaked, Sat 10.10.09, Morning
07:00 Reihan CP
The upper parking lot is empty. Three private cars are near the exit post from the seamline zone side. Two cars are waiting at the entrance to the inspection compound.
07:00 "Good morning, the stream is beginning." Those leaving first at 07:10 are satisfied with the procedures.
At 07:15 nobody enters and the passages inside the terminal look empty.
One of our acquaintances comes out and claims that the work in the rooms is very slow. Using the machine it is possible to inspect people in pairs, but today they insist on people coming through one by one.
At this time there are people going through in the opposite direction because they worked on the night shift; the person responsible for the CP (the one who talked to us before) opens an additional window which will remain in operation until about 07:50. The stream of people going through increases. We see A. driving back and forth time after time.
There are only a few seamstresses this time; they tell us that inside it is very crowded. Women who work at olive-picking go through with rolls of sacks.
By our timing, it takes a quarter of an hour from going through the yellow gate to exiting the terminal.
07:55 The noise of the slamming doors has stopped, and the terminal seems to be empty.
08:05 In the upper parking lot there are 12 Transits. One of them is waiting for the last passengers. The others – are empty. The restrooms are clean and there are toilet paper and soap. On the doors of the restrooms there are signs in Hebrew.
Traffic is thin as usual at this time.
A car with sacks of wool (if we understood correctly — from shearing goats) whose owner cannot transport them because of some problem of registering. We could not understand why there was a problem. What was worse, he wanted to bring home a new washing maching. and they did not agree to let him take it through at Shaked – only at Reihan. The man claimed that driving to Reihan meant an additional NIS300 on the price of the machine. That did not help him. The washing machine returned to Tura, and this was not the first time, with the hope that next time he will have some success.
We suggested that he call the DCO; he said he knows the number. They told him to call back in another ten minutes. In the meantime, somebody arrived in a car and took him away from there. So we left without knowing what happened to the washing machine.
08:50 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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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