Reihan, Shaked, Sat 6.3.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:55 – Reihan checkpoint
At 07:00 the loudspeakers announce, "Good Morning. Passage will now begin." The concrete blocks in the park greet us. This is the first time that we've seen them.
There is a large black sign on the fence near the watchtower. We were able to make out the word "to win".
We noticed that they are raising parrots at the checkpoint. (Who's paying for it?) The cage is next to one of the gates where the guards exit.
After about ten minutes the first person came out of the terminal, and after that no one else came out. From 07:15 on everyone who came to the gate went in. Today we didn't hear any shouts from the entrance such as "five at a time, five at a time" or anything else. Inside the terminal two windows are open. Students arrive with large suitcases going to the West Bank. They are in a hurry and don't stop to talk with us. One person coming out says there is a crowd inside the terminal. Another comes out angry and curses the Jews. Occasionally the turnstile shuts in the face of the person standing inside, and then releases him. On one instance it was locked when one of the people insisted on something, possibly having to do with being checked and he was sent back. We did not see him and when we asked about him people shrugged.
One person told us there had been a problem with his electronic palm reading and that he had been sent to Salem to get a new reading and had been told there that everything was in order. Another person told us he was not being permitted to go live with his wife in Barta'a. His friends were irritated that he was holding up the taxi, and we knew that there was nothing we could do.The sleeve was filled with people going in both directions despite the fact that it appeared that people were not moving. People were being held up in the side rooms inside the terminal. The large number of taxis that were waiting was testimony to the large amount of people. At 08:40 there were only 3 transits in the upper parking lot, and we left.
08:50 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Here, too, there was a lot of traffic compared with what we usually see. A tender, a car, an elderly man and a boy, and a herd of goats were waiting. A flag of the military police and another blue and black flag are flying. A woman soldier stops peering into the engine of a tender to shout at us that we have crossed some line or another. The elderly man stopped to talk with a friend and the boy remained with the goats, and they began to walk. The boy was frightened that the goats had begun to walk away and was afraid to follow them. The soldier shouted, "What are you going to do about the goats?" We greeted the elderly man, whom we knew, and we left.
We left at 09:00.
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)
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