Reihan, Shaked, Sat 20.6.09, Morning
06:55 – Rihan checkpoint
The upper car park area is vacant. The gate on the road in the middle of the checkpoint is closed. It will open at around 07:05.
"Good morning, beginning passage." Dogs bark.
We hear from the entrance post some ugly, humiliating rebukes. The gate does not close all the way. A large family enters not in groups of five, and we hear shouts in Hebrew and Arabic "Back off", or "I said shut the door! what's not understood?!"
Following the scolding , the yelling and the humiliating treatment, we ask one of the guards (in black) to call the person in charge. With in two minutes two persons arrive (wearing light blue shirts), we are granted an explanation that the people going through do not understand the instructions and so, they need to shout at them, in order for them to follow the orders. We don't give in to that, hoping that someone would order the shouter to stop. It is hard to tell whether it's been done or not because in the meantime the number of those going inside kept decreasing.
A second inspection window did not open.
Passage time from entrance to exit is about 20 minutes.
Towards 08:00 we were puzzled by the absence of our Saturday acquaintances, those whom we usually meet around 07:30, as they come out.
Around 08:15 they came out claiming that they were held inside for a long time. They were the first to arrive, at 07:00 or even earlier and among the first to get out.
08:25 – The sleeve is busy and crowded, all hurry (at times nervously) to the cabs, which fill up and drive away.
At the upper car park area there are 8 vans.
08:45 – Shaked checkpoint.
Quiet. no traffic. a car that arrives, goes through immediately.
08:50 – 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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