Reihan, Shaked, Sun 13.9.09, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked Checkpoint, 15:30
A resident of Dahar el Malak, who has returned from Jenin with presents for the holiday, waited at the checkpoint for over an hour to receive permission from the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Salem to take several packages and holiday gifts across the checkpoint. He has a private car but he cannot take it with him and therefore has to take a taxi to bring his shopping from Jenin, where it is less expensive, but the trip costs NIS 15 in each direction.
Reihan Checkpoint, 16:00
Two windows in the terminal are open and people are moving through, but when more people began to arrive one window was closed for some reason. Several people with boxes and knapsacks were held up. When we asked one person how long they had been waiting until things were cleared up he claimed that it depends, sometimes a short time and sometimes several hours.
16:30 – There is a large crowd pf people waiting. People are returning from work according to Israeli time and some are working according to Palestinian time (one hour earlier). We proceeded to the vehicle checkpoint – there are a lot of cars waiting for passengers including both public and private cars.
We returned to the sleeve. Again there is a crowd of people waiting despite the fact that this time there were two windows operating. For the first time we saw the side door open to let a person in with a television set that would not fit through the turnstile. One worker claimed that Tibet Checkpoint is operating better when our members are there. If they are not there, there are problems.
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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