Reihan, Shaked, Sat 30.7.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint, 07:30-08:00
When we arrived at the checkpoint there was no traffic but within a short time people began to arrive and wait in front of the inspection facility, which serves people going in both directions. People had to wait about 15 minutes in order to go through. Since there are not a lot of people, there was not a long line.
08:10-08:50 – Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
When we arrived at the upper parking lot there were a lot of taxis waiting for people to come out – a sign that people are being held up in the terminal. When we got to the entrance people told us that they had been delayed inside for an hour! This hour from 07:00 – 08:00 is a busy time of day and there are two windows open but it appears that the delay is in the area that we cannot see inside the terminal. We didn't succeed in telephoning the people in charge and were unable to help. The car at the entrance to the inspection facility to the seamline zone has a new metal roof that looks like a double tent – a reminder of the tent cities of the social protest now taking place in Israel.
On this topic, the following notice from an Israeli Economic Journal:
A New Solution to the housing problem? The settlement of |Reihan is offering two-room apartments to families and young couple for only NIS 1,000 per month. The apartments are intended as temporary housing for one year for people interested in residing in the settlement, located in Shomron within the area of the separation barrier. The settlement presently houses 40 families and the new houses that are being developed are planned to save energy.
The settlement is offering 30 half-dunam (1/8 acre) plots for building one-storey cottages of 120-150 square meters at a cost of one million shekels and the apartments are designated tor potential members to become integrated into life in the community.
The houses were built with the possibility of enlarging them and building on another storey in the future and were designed according to the desires of the residents.
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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