Reihan, Shaked, Sun 10.4.11, Afternoon
Translation; Bracha B.
15:15 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
There is little traffic at this hour. One car goes towards the West Bank, one towards the seamline zone. One pretty and elegant driver, in a fancy car, drives an old woman and a boy to Dar Al Kalakh and returns with the boy after a short time. She takes an interest in my tag and thanks me. I take a woman and her packages to Um a-Reihan.
15:50 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The lower parking lot is filled with cars and drivers waiting for passengers. A., the driver, received a speeding ticket and has to pay a fine of 1400 Shekels. I receive an Arabic lesson from Sami, the Bedouin:
"Yinkharak al allam, ana bas bali awaladi." (Let the whole world burn, I'm only concerned about my children." He has 18. He is in need of electrical appliances for his large family. I have his phone number.
At 16:20 the northern entrance to the terminal is empty! Two windows are operating. We hear arguments coming out of the terminal: "In the morning they told you to go to Salem. He went to Salem and they told him he has nothing." The young woman is arguing, and meanwhile workers arrive in small groups.
A young man from Barta'a, who is taking driving lessons three times a week to drive a bus in Jenin, complains that he is forced to wait on the infamous bench each time he goes to the West Bank, and when he comes back he is forced to strip to his underwear. He showed us a power of attorney he gave three Israeli lawyers who work against harassment at the checkpoints.
Three young men with sports bags are sent to wait on the detainees' bench. One man says that this morning he had to waste two and a half hours at the vehicle checkpoint because A. from Mevo Dotan was driving through with charcoal and everyone else was delayed.
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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