Reihan, Shaked, Sat 20.3.10, Morning
We went down to the Palestinian parking lot. There we met the driver, A., after many Saturdays when we only observed him coming and going.
The lot is full of vehicles. People park in the middle of the lot and there is double parking. The electric entry gate to the terminal is active all the time. There are no queues. The security guard at the entrance sounds bad! She is angry, tense, talks nervously and rudely to the people, in bad 'occupational' Arabic mixed with Hebrew. She scolds those who are entering and sends back those coming out to have their bags inspected even though they have been through the whole terminal!
"Shu [what] — what've you got in the bags?"
"Thurmus?"
" ….you over there! Staneh Shwai dakika! [slow down a minute]. You don't have a permit for that! What've you got in your pockets, mualem [teach']?!"
"Ta'al, ta'al hon [come on, come over here]. Iftah ala shantot [open the bags] …"
"You! what's that? Khales – putu kul ishi ala tauleh [you over there, that's enough, put everything on the table]"
"Yalla rukh! [hey, go on]! Yalla khales [hey, that's enough]! putu [go through]!"
9:40 We went up to the terminal and met those who entered from the lower gate and had already gone through the terminal. A few went through in a quarter of an hour. For others it took 25 – 30 minutes.
At 9:35 The parrots were fed! The person at the gatepost continued to shout instructions to those going through. Three cars left the inspection area.
"What's this? All of these are gifts? What are these? Gifts?"
9:45 We left.
9:55 Shaked CP
Three cars are waiting; six people are waiting outside the pavilion. A soldier enters the pavilion. He comes out; a door opens, a door closes. Finally the brown door opens and the people begin to enter in order to come out in the direction of Tura.
The cars are inspected very meticulously.
10:10 We left.
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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