Reihan, Shaked, Sat 12.5.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Tura-Shaked Checkpoint, 07:20-07:40
About 20 people, as well as vehicles, are waiting on each side of the checkpoint, which is unusual for a Saturday morning. We are told that the reason there are so many people is that yesterday there was a wedding in the village. The checkpoint also opened a bit late.
People began crossing quickly and the entire line of people going towards the West Bank went through within ten minutes. People then began crossing in the opposite direction. Cars pass through relatively quickly despite the fact that the previous regulations are being enforced – drivers must first to the inspection facility and then return to their cars, wait to be called, and then drive up to be checked.
The renovation at the checkpoint continues: there is now a covered sleeve, for people, leading to the inspection facility, and four green poles have been set up in the center of the checkpoint – presumably in preparation for a covered shed, where vehicles can be checked. The soldiers' position has also been fenced in.
The tobacco plants in the nearby field are turning green. A herd of goats goes by. Soldiers approach us and order us to stop taking pictures. They demanded that we show them our camera so that they can see what we have already photographed. We refused. The argument continues and we decided to leave.
Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint, 07:50-08:20
The checkpoint is extremely crowded with vehicles and pedestrians, in both directions. People coming out of the terminal report that there are lots of people inside. Only one inspection window is open and it is being used by people going in and out. A long line is forming and the turnstile on the side of the seamline zone is locked occasionally, preventing people from passing through. Nevertheless we see that people coming from the seamline zone are crossing through relatively quickly.
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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