Reihan, Shaked, Sun 11.5.08, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
Reihan CP 05:55 – 06:50
The CP opened at 05:30 and the first of those going through (mostly workers) are now leaving. One of the men tells us that the people emerging from inspection by the new x-ray machine are sent for an additional inspection in the side rooms, and some of them (he estimates about ten percent) are sent back to the machine. All the women tell us that they feel very uncomfortable with the machine; they are especially worried about radiation.
In the vehicle CP: They allow the passage of a person who is ill, directly from a Palestinian car to an Israeli one that takes him away for treatment.
Shaked CP — 7:05
The CP is closed. Workers, children and cars are waiting on both sides, and children from the Isolated House are sitting inside the CP. We called the DCO and we were told that they were dealing with the delay but did not know what was happening. The army notified them: "We will get back to you." We also called the Menasheh Brigade and told them that the CP was locked. The waiting people told us that yesterday the CP was opened only at 08:30.
At 07:30 the soldiers who are posted to the CP arrive on foot. In front of the CP, on the side of the seamline zone, most of the pupils, four passenger cars with teachers, and two taxis with students are all waiting. As soon as they open the gate, and even before, they have organized the inspection room, all of them crowd into the CP compound. For the time being people are not allowed to enter from the West Bank side . That begins only at 07:40, after the inspection rooms have been readied. It takes three minutes to go through. Those going through insist that their names be listed despite the late opening; they do not want problems when they return.
Reihan CP – 08:00
Nine pickup trucks with goods are waiting. Five pickup trucks enter for inspection at 07:00 but they had not emerged at 08:35 when we left. The passenger cars are inspected as usual; it takes twenty minutes for four cars, which are inspected at the same time. There is still only a small number of people going through from Barta'a in the direction of the West Bank.
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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