Reihan, Shaked, Sat 11.8.12, Morning
07:30-09:00
07:30 Shaked CP
Traffic is very thin. One car and a few pedestrians. The driver of the car returns from inspection, takes two packages of empty egg cartons out of the car and leaves them in the shed. He drives off in the direction of Tura before we have a chance to ask him about it. A sergeant approaches us ('Barak' unit of the artillery). He courteously asks how we are, asks us to stand near the shed so as not to be endangered by the cars going through the gate. He explains that people who are forced to wait for inspection are in a hurry, and perhaps even nervous. Afterwards, he suggested that we enter the CP. When we asked if his invitation also includes the inspection hut, he said that is the domain of the military police and he has no authority. "But there is nothing there, only a post and an x-ray machine …. Here people are calm. We know them, they go through every day, there is no danger …."
Where is there danger?
We parted amicably.
After him, five soldiers came up to us (four men and one woman who told us she is in the regular army). They also wanted us to understand that the CPs are necessary and that their guarding our homes should be valued highly. The conversation with them strengthened our faith in the educational systems that succeed in conveying 'truths' about the character of all the Palestinians no matter who they are, and a belief in the peace-seeking ways of the IDF. 08:00 We left.
08:15 Reihan CP
Here, too, there is very little traffic. There are many Transits waiting for clients.
Many of those who emerge arrange their belts after passing through the magnometer inside the terminal The corridors of the terminal also look empty.
09:00 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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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