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Reihan, Shaked, Sat 10.11.07, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Children Family Connections Slow passage
Observers: Shula N., Noa L. (reporting)
Nov-10-2007
| Morning
Shaked CP 0730-0800
Lively traffic in both directions, cars and pedestrians. The passage is quick.
A resident of A'anin asks us to help him get a permit for going through to his land.  He has received a permit only for a week, and on it there is a stamp saying: "Valid despite the fact that he is forbidden passage." We will send details about him to the staff that deals with "those forbidden passage".

Reihan CP: 0810-0930
Here, too, the traffic is lively. In the terminal building two windows are open. There is nobody waiting outside, but according to the people leaving, there are many people inside. It takes about half an hour to go through.
One man tries to go through with his two little children. They are listed as Israelis on the mother's blue ID card; just now she is visiting her family in the occupied territories. The father, a resident of East Barta'a, has a Palestinian ID card and a permit of passage, but the children are not listed in his card. The father and the children want to join the mother in the territories, but they are not allowed to go through. He has the birth certificates of both children and a marriage certificate – but they are of no help. We telephoned the DCO and were told that as long as the children are not listed on the father's ID card, he will not be able to take them through and the mother has to come and take them.

We also met a father of five, who worked in Israel until recently. He had a permit of passage with the name of his Israeli employer; he paid the whole sum of NIS 1100 (??!!) to the Labor Office, and now they are not renewing his permit. We wrote down the details in order to find out about this matter.

A Bedoui who lives near Hermesh, near the road, was required to show a permit to go through the Dothan CP in order to leave his home and in order to return there. The soldiers sent him to the DCO, but there they told him:
"Why do you need a permit all of a sudden; the soldiers are nuts!" We wrote down the details to find out about this matter too.

Trays of eggs are piled up in the shed waiting to go through tomorrow.

In the vehicle CP the inspection is very slow, at least half an hour for a group of four vehicles, not counting the waiting time. We saw that a Palestinian vehicle on its way to the West Bank also had to go through a very careful inspection.

  • 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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