Reihan, Shaked, Sun 11.7.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
7.45 – 5.55
Reihan Checkpoint: 05:55
About 10 people are waiting for rides in the upper parking lot, and report to us that they went through the terminal in about ten minutes. One of the people tells us that on Saturdays there is heavy traffic in the terminal between 08:00 and 09:00. People in the lower parking lot enter the terminal immediately and pass through the terminal quickly. When we descended the sleeve to the entrance we found the terminal quiet and people coming out quickly. People are returning from night shifts in the seamline zone and are returning to the West Bank.
At 06:10 four vehicles enter the facility to be checked. At 06:23 two cars drive in towards the West Bank and are stopped immediately at the vehicle checkpoint. The passengers run their magnetic cards through the machine and their ID cards are checked and they continue on their way without the vehicle being checked. One woman who has no magnetic card is sent to the terminal.
8 tenders with merchandise are waiting in the lower parking lot and four more are being checked in the vehicle facility.
At 06:55 there are about 15 workers waiting in the upper parking lot for vehicles to come out of the closed inspection facility.
07:05 Shaked Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint only opened at 07:05 and the soldiers checked the area. People entered the area checkpoint but have to wait until 07:12 for the inspection room to open. 20 people, two herds of goats and five vehicles are waiting to enter the seamline zone and six people, two cars, and a taxi with passengers pass quickly and quietly to the West Bank. The leaves on the tobacco plants near the checkpoint are dried up and cannot be harvested.
At 07:30 the Bedouin who was beaten yesterday by one of the soldiers returned home from the hospital in Jenin. He tells us that after he left the inspection room yesterday he encountered a soldier who did not speak but made some unclear movements with his hands. He interpreted these motions as a hint to raise his shirt and open his belt (the usual harassment) and did so. The soldier then turned to his brother who spoke Hebrew and the man's pants fell down. This evidently angered the soldier who began to beat him. He claimed that after the soldier beat him they moved him outside the fence to the West Bank side where he collapsed. He was then taken to the inspection room where the soldiers took care of him and gave him an injection.
The incident occurred at 08:30 and he was taken to the hospital in Jenin [only] at 11:30. There he was found to have suffered from beatings on the upper part of his body and he is still suffering from [pains] in his neck and has to return to the hospital for a follow-up examination tomorrow. The soldier who beat him was not at the checkpoint today but the soldiers who were present say that he was not beaten but had a cardiac incident and that they took care of him.
At 07:45 the checkpoint is quiet and occasionally someone arrives and goes through. .
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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