Reihan, Shaked, Sat 3.12.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
07:00 – 07:40 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
It is a clear and very cold day. We were greeted by the yellow and black flags of the Kfir Brigade, with a vampire emblem.
The checkpoint is open. Two men and two women soldiers are in the area between the two gates and another is in the position above. A lot of people are waiting on the Tura side. They cross without delay and continue on to work. A tractor, two small trucks, and private cars also cross. A donkey crosses to Tura and a horse crosses in the direction of Dar al Kalakh. Our guest photographs the horse. Despite the fact that she did not photograph soldiers, the soldier ordered her not to take pictures of soldiers, and told her, "You can photograph horses somewhere else." We stood above the checkpoint and he went off to do his job. Cars are being meticulously checked, and hoods are opened as well as doors. By 07:40 the herd of goats has not crossed yet. We continued on to Barta'a.
07:55 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
12 vans are waiting and a lot of people are getting into cars on their way to Barta'a. A line of cars leaves the garden near the inspection point. We can hear a dog barking. A checkpoint attendant comes and closes the doors to the inspection facility garden. He shouts something having to do with "Kahana was right".
The minibus to Barta'a is standing next to the position on the road. We could see the passengers placing their cards on the box outside the facility instead of swiping them through the slot. Drivers still have to collect the IDs of their passengers and show them at the booth.
One window is open inside the terminal. We hear voices from the line of people crossing, they are attempting to convince one of the inspectors about something to do with a photograph on someone's ID. They have evidently succeeded because after about 10 minutes everyone came out. Meanwhile a line has formed on the way to the inspection rooms. The attendant calls and asks for help. "Guard! Why are they standing here?" She has stopped the turnstile, and it began working again a few minutes later. Four people were sitting and waiting next to the wall, but we didn't understand why.
At 08:20 a second window opened and the crowd disappeared. Some people said they had waited a half hour, and others said they had gone through quickly.
We left at 08:30.
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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