Reihan, Shaked, Sun 11.9.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A
Summary: the depressing routine of the occupation. We spent much of this shift explaining to our guest the significance of the seamline zone, the fence, and the checkpoints for the Palestinians.
Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint – 05:45 – 06:45
Taxis and employers' vehicles are waiting for workers in the upper parking lot. We saw one of the seamstresses getting into a taxi, and we went down to the lower parking lot, which was empty except for several cars belonging to merchants from Barta'a, and unofficial taxis bringing workers who entered the gate in groups of five. There were no particular problems. Underneath the shed there were stacks of cartons of eggs waiting for a car to transport them to Barta'a along with packages of paint and floor tiles and a carton of tehina marked 100% sesame.
Cars carrying merchandise – one covered with plastic and another that is covered – are waiting – one is in the parking lot and the other at the entrance to the inspection area. A double truck with yellow license plates is being checked thoroughly net to the yellow gates and not inside the closed inspection facility.
We returned to the upper parking lot where we met a worker from the Shahak Industrial zone. He claimed that his employer was "stealing {from} us" – he does not pay the minimum wage and does not pay for Jewish or Muslim holidays. We referred him to the Palestinian workers' hotline in Tul Karem (Ruthi said she would get the number for him. Evidently factories have been moved to the seamline zone where they are not compelled to follow Israeli law. This matter needs to be checked.
06:55-07:30 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
On our way we saw several soldiers walking up to the checkpoint with their gear and heavy shoes. One woman soldier is walking with them – the day has not even started yet and she is already out of breath and tired going up the hill. It is already hot. We are often asked if we are not afraid to be at the checkpoints without any protective gear.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The gates open. The new barbed wire looks very cumbersome and is superfluous and unnecessary for the country's protection. The small children run towards the soldier who checks their schoolbags. They are used to this and are no longer afraid. They are followed by the man on his white donkey and the shepherd with his herd of goats who eat everything in their path.
As usual a well -dressed man walks through the checkpoint and the elegant banker arrives, his car is checked, and he drives on to another work day.
We left for Jalameh to take Jawad and his father to Rambam Hospital. We wish him good health.
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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