Reihan, Shaked, Sat 7.3.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
7:30 – 8:00 Shaked-Tura CP
There is a lot of traffic in the CP: Waiting near the turnstile in order to go through from the West Bank to the seamline zone are about 20 people, two herds of goats, a donkey and a number of vehicles. It seems that the passage is slow. One of the people driving who has gone through gives us a message from the owner of the herds: "Every day he goes through with a herd, and waits about two hours until they let him through. Why?" We asked a soldier in the CP and he answered courteously that the passage of the herd is being clarified. And indeed, within a few minutes the two herds and the donkey did go through. The cars go through quickly, but the people are delayed for a long time.One of those going through tells us that "Inside there are two people who keep chattering all the time and talking about all kinds of nonsensical things, and they don't care about our time." In the end, after the half hour that we were at the CP, all of them go through. It seems, however, that the wait time of some of the people was a whole hour.
8:10 – 9:25 Reihan-Barta'a CP
Here too, there is a lot of traffic. On the slope leading down the sleeve to the entrance to the terminal we meet many people going in both directions. From the entrance we hear many voices inside. After ten minutes, they open another window and after another ten minutes, a third window is opened. Those coming out tell us that inside there are very many people. Apparently they opened today only at 7:30 instead of at 7:00 and as a result there is a lot of pressure. At the entrance to the terminal there are signs that are new (to us): "No Smoking – Fine of NIS 1000," "Using a Telephone during the Passage is Forbidden", "Taking Pictures is Forbidden", and more.
in the meantime, the pressure has eased somewhat and now it takes ten minutes to go through all together. In the parking lot on the side of the West Bank a large group of men are waiting for the ambulance that is bringing a boy who died in Rambam. We express our sympathy. The ambulance arrives quickly and the group in tears leaves with it. In the vehicle inspection shed, six vehicles are being inspected at the same time, within fifteen minutes — record time. The queue of cars waiting for inspection is short. In the parking lot on the side of the West Bank, a man asks for our help: He has been 'forbidden' (apparently an illegal sojourner in Israel) for a long time, and cannot get a permit to go through. Considering all our recent failures to help in this matter, we told him that at the moment there is nothing we as individuals can do, but that as a collective we have now appealed in regard to the entire matter of the permits.
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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