Reihan, Shaked, Sat 5.2.11, Morning
07.20 Shaked CP
A woman soldier (Military police) and four male soldiers. The inspection of the cars is very pedantic. The driver of one of the Transits takes down a rug in order to get to the spare wheel. A manual screening instrument is brought over, and every corner of the car is inspected.
There is very little traffic.
8.05 — we left.
08.15 Reihan CP
In the upper parking lot many vans are waiting. On the road at the entrance post a Subaru with all five doors open is waiting and it is being inspected inside and out and from the bottom with the help of a mirror. A man and a child are sitting in the playground that Arik Sharon has built and developed for their comfort.
A CP security person talks to someone over his shoulder while he searches us with his eyes. When they finished inspecting the Subaru they announced, 'we'll take it up for an x-ray.' Suspecting that our observing them was likely to do more damage, we left the place and went over to observe the inside of the terminal The traffic in the sleeve is thin. They say that inside it is crowded, that there is a very long queue at the entrance. Others say that today things are all right. Looking into the terminal we discover that only one window is in operation; and only one of the turnstiles is working. The corridor behind the active window is full and crowded. From time to time some people arrive and they ask to leave in the direction of the West Bank. Then the pressure increases. A telephone call to Sharon helped! Within a few minutes an additional window is opened and the corridors are emptied. When we left, the car that was taken to be x-rayed was gone. Maybe they took it for a CT. Who knows what they have found? About ten Transits were waiting – for passengers?
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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