Reihan, Shaked, Sat 5.12.09, Morning
Rihan checkpoint
07:00 – "Good morning let the flow begin" (passage begins). This time it is relatively sparse in comparison with past weekends. (excluding the Sabbath prior to the holiday which was particularly busy).
Very few people went through. There were no lines in front of the inspection windows (which usually can be seen from the entrance to the terminal). Passage time (about 15 minutes) was like in every other Sabbath.
E., who drives passengers to the entrance of the terminal, was seen driving away and returning only after 07:45.
We observed only a few vehicles about to enter the vehicles' inspection area. Very few relative to other days.
The lower car park area was very crowded. Our question was answered by our acquaintance on site that many are waiting for permits and do not receive it. One of them numbered as many as 2000 people whose agriculture permits has expired. There are people who are let through only from Taibe, a much longer and costly way for them.
08:30 We left. The sleeve is almost empty on both sides.
Important complaint: One of the seamstresses who lives in the West Bank and works in Barta'a complained that whenever she crosses the terminal she is being sent to the Salem DCO, to renew her hand "photo" because the biometric device does not recognize her. When she travels all the way to Salem (thus losing a days' work + travel fare) She is being sent back because "everything is ok". she asked for our help.
08:40 Shaked gate.
His reaction (before he turned his back to us) :"Ok, whatever works for you."
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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