Reihan, Shaked, Sat 16.4.11, Morning
6:15 Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint
7 loaded trucks awaiting inspection along with a few other vehicles. People enter the terminal without delays. There is time to listen to occupied territories tales: E.M., a 32-year-old from Akaba, who occasionally earns a living as a driver, was stopped by a traffic policeman; his papers were ok, and he as well as his passengers were buckled in. According to him the police officer, after not finding anything wrong, had accused the driver for talking on the phone while driving: "But I did not speak on phone, I have 4 witnesses and you can check my cell phone and the passengers phones", "I don't care," said the policeman and fined him for Nis.1,000.00. The driver cannot afford to pay the fine. Also since the Israeli Security authorities do not allow him to enter Israel, he is unable to use the court of justice as an option to prove his case. He'll try to obtain his phone output from the telephone company and we shall try to follow up and assist as much as we can.
The Seamstresses gather at 6:40.
A fellow I've met at the lower car park had exited the terminal 15 minutes later. M., the sewing shop owner, arrives, he walks excitedly down the sleeve to find out what happened to one of his seamstress,
H., one of the guards, explains that the machine was out of order and that the seamstress was asked to take off her pants, which she refused. Now she is under arrest and is also not free to return home.
In the mean time M. complains that his parents are divoreced. His mother is an Israeli who lives in Nazareth while he and his father reside in Jenin. In the past he was allowed to visit his old, sick mother once a month. Ever since he asked for a blue I.d. card but had refused to work for ther Israeli security authorities in exchange – he is allowed to see his mother only once every three months.
7:20 – Shaked-Tura checkpoint
About 15 people wait in front of the carousel. There is a number of people by the inspection carbine's door. Children arrive in the white van. Their school bags are inspected. The banker who drives every morning to work in Ya'abed says that the soldiers are slow. He was already in the inspection cabin and is now waiting for his car's 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).
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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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