Reihan, Shaked, Sat 16.10.10, Morning
Translation:
Bracha B.A.
07:20 Shaked Checkpoint
are only two soldiers present. One is
wearing a helmet and the other has a mushroom-shaped head covering. There are
no flags or other military items about.
On the other side of the fence near Tura the area looks exposed and
open. Have the piles of dirt been
cleared away? There is evidently a
shortage of manpower. A tender arrives
with a driver whom we know and seven passengers get out. The driver does not talk to us because he is
certain that he will be called to go through, but the two soldiers wait: the
one with the helmet leans against the fence while the one with the
mushroom-shaped hat sits in a plastic chair watching the inspection booth. During the time the passengers are being
checked the driver honks occasionally to remind them that they are in a hurry,
but the soldiers take their time. When the driver was finally called we could
not hear what was said but we could tell by their motions and body
language. Two soldiers outside cannot
watch the vehicles and keep an eye on a family going into the inspection
facility at the same time. One of the people coming out was a resident of
Barta'a living in Tura who talked about events under the occupation while he
put his belt back on. He told about
soldiers coming into houses in Tura during the winter covered with mud and
conducting searches using violence. They
stood the men outside the house and pinned tags to their chests and
photographed them. While we were talking
to him another soldier appeared wearing a helmet and wrapped in a prayer shawl
and was praying. He continued to do so
until we left. Later the soldiers
managed to let two cars through – one from Tura and the other from Dar el
Malakh. After a telephone call it became clear that the meeting that was to
take place between the Liaison and Coordination Administration and Dar al
Malakh never took place. The female
soldier was evidently on vacation. We
left at 08:00. . . .
08:10 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Today
everything is great and the occupation pleases everyone. The sleeve is empty and two windows are
open. The doors are slamming inside and
people are getting used to the new turnstile.
Someone says, "Today everything is going quickly. That's the way it should be."
On our way out we saw that few cars were waiting to be checked. NO cars are going south. A cleaning worker wheels a supermarket cart
with a large bottle inside. We left at
08:30. There were still 8 transits
waiting for passengers.
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)
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