Reihan, Shaked, Sat 17.4.10, Morning
Shaked-Tura CP 0730 – 0810
There is lively traffic at the CP, something unusual on Saturday (but similar to Saturday last week). For the most part people want to go through from the West Bank to the seamline zone. About 30 people are waiting at the turnstiles. More people keep coming. When we left there were 10 waiting at the turnstile and among those coming and going was a herd of goats and a donkey, a tiny Autobianchi with the symbol of Volkswagen — all the typical and well-known activity. Today, for the first time, we saw a woman with a baby carriage, apparently on her way to the isolated house. We called the DCO in order to complain and to find out about the delay. A woman sergeant and an officer approached us and explained very courteously that they only have one piece of equipment for inspection and too few soldiers. They work a 12 hour shift; they must inspect each and every one, and that takes time. When we asked about sheds where those waiting could sit down, they answered (already reported here) that improvements are planned shortly. We wondered about the barking dogs that we heard and it turned out that it was an unknown dog who runs around the CP and bothers everybody.
Reihan-Barta'a CP 0820-0855
Here there is a great deal of traffic as usual, but it is flowing and there are no delays. There are no people waiting. A car and its passengers on the way to the West Bank are inspected near the vehicle CP, by one woman worker who by herself carries out the whole procedure of checking the documents, the underside of the vehicle, and its top and all sides with the help of a mirror and a flashlight. Finally she approves the passage — all in five minutes. In the sleeve, those coming out tell about a quick passage of a few minutes. Two windows are open in the terminal; and after that only one, as the number of those going through is reduced.
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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