Reihan, Shaked, Sat 6.2.10, Morning
06:5 Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Extremely cold, clear, windy. 2 vans are waiting. We hear strong barks from the direction of the dog house .
Flower pots that were stuck on the wall of the quarried hill over the sleeve's fence are already planted.
07:00 "Good morning, begin the flow", the announcement is heard.
The entrance post is manned by a yelling, rude security woman. :"Sacker" (close!) No one hold the door! 'Bas Hamsa" (only five!) "What didI say?! Sacker! close! Bas Hamsa! bas hamsa! do not run! What did I say? No no no no….bas hamsa! sacker lebab, now you can go through, foto bas hamsa (Go only five at a time), more than five, Awera (back!)."
At 07:25 the crowding at the entrance eases and whoever arrives goes in and the educational orders from the gate end.
07:35 All of a sudden the gates of the terminal close. Why? soon the security man open the doors and joins them to the magnets that holds them wide open.
Two security men by the roadblock speak to each other in a loud voice:"You are a son of a bitch" says one to the other…. The gates of the trucks inspection area open and we see six vehicles with the agricultural produce that had entered half an hour ago and now drive out. The drivers are the ones to open the gates while the security person is the one who closes it. (Surprisingly the gates are not electrical).
We stand to watch passage of people through the vehicles inspection post.All passengers get out of the vehicles,one after another they run their magnetic cards in the notch designated for that. After sorting out identification and passage issues of those wishing to cross over, the driver gets back his I.D card and the taxi or the bus can proceed. About ten minutes per vehicle.
08:15 13 vans wait for passengers at the upper car park area.
We left.
08:25 – Shaked-Tura checkpoint
The sun is already out but it is still cold. As we get out of the car we hear yelling aimed at someone but except for us, there is no one on site, so we realize that the we are the target of the yelling. :"Do not move forward, you have an Israeli ID card, get back to the station, you are not allowed here, I can arrest you, get back".
The hysterical Sergeant gets to the gate, his rank stripes are held by a safety pin and are hidden. We try and explain the orders of the checkpoint and show him the line (that does not exist) which we are banned from crossing.
The Sergeant insists that he can arrest us.
We stood there for a while and as we were leaving we heard calls :"Want to cross over to the other side? come on move to the other side….
08:40 – 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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