Reihan, Shaked, Sat 18.7.09, Morning
The upper parking lot is empty. Only the roadblock is closed. It will open a little bit after 07:00 together with the announcement, "Begin the streaming!" There are no cars at the entrance. A yellow taxi is waiting "to leave." The workers of the CP are getting ready to begin their operations. From our observation point we see people entering in groups of five; some groups are occasionally turned back to aensure good order. We also see A.'s Transit arriving and departing, arriving and departing ….
07:07: The first people to leave the terminal are on their way to the seamline zone. One of them is angry because we are standing outside and do not enter to see how crowded it is inside. At about 07:15 the parade of groups of five stalled at the entrance ends. Afterwards, M., who arrives, enters immediately. The exit from the terminal is very slow.
Beginning at about 07:20, we see a long queue and a big crowd at the inspection window, and in the passage leading up to it. At 07:35, a second post was opened and remained in operation until 07:50. At that time all the passages that we could see were empty. From time to time, a person reached the inspection window.
Going through from entrance to exit took between 15 and 20 minutes.
In comparison with past Saturdays, there were many people going through this time. The seamstresses also went through, after we hadn't seen them for a long time.
There is a woman inspector at the window who always yells at us. Not only today. Always;
In the rooms – they put all of us into the inspection rooms;
It is very crowded;
They work slowly;
They inspect every little thing. Praise (?) that we heard:
Here they are all "sensitive souls."
08:20 There are ten Transits in the upper parking lot.
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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