Reihan, Shaked, Sat 9.5.09, Morning
06:55 0 08:45
06:55 – Rihan checkpoint
Upper car park area: One van. The road block closed, would open at 07:05. "….Begin the flow",as in every Saturday when we're on site.
Entrance sleeve – Those coming out report that: "Today its full" and also "Today all is right". They hurry, as usual.Until 07:20 the line is short both at the entrance to the terminal and when they get out of the inspection chambers.
Inside the terminal – the divider is shut.One window is open. When the line gets longer as people come out of the chambers, between 07:30 and -7:45, another window opens which shortens the long line thus allowing passage for those wanting to cross over to the lower care park area.
At the Vehicles shed there are hardly any cars. On the road as well, there is no line of cars but on the opposite side there is a relatively long line of cars "going out". The cabs and its passengers are being inspected on their way out. Inside the terminal, by the entrance, we observe three youngsters sitting. We try in inquire and realize that it has to do with something missing with their permits which prevents them from passing through ("out" to the "Occupied territories"). They waited for at least 40 minutes.
At 08:00 when we came back, they were gone. But we saw and heard a cry of a young mother,grandfather and upset aunts because the guard would not let a little girl and a little boy cross over to Barta'a to see a doctor (the girl suffers hearing impairment) due to a missing some sort of a permit.While we were on the phone in an attempt to assist the party, the two kids went through with an elderly man.The family appeared to calm down, thanking us – for what????- and went its way. We had the privilege of watching the opening of the new gate of a brand new inspection facility, and three cars driving out of there. We were most impressed by the fact that the gate did not open automatically but rather manually by a person who had to bend down to open the lower locks and it appears as a gesture of bowing down to drivers of cars waiting to get out.Nice !At the upper car park area, there are 8 vans.
08:20 – We left 08:30 -08:45
Shaked checkpoint
Quiet, Very little traffic almost nonexistence. .
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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