Reihan, Shaked, Sun 14.3.10, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
"We're here for no reason." (This was stated by a soldier, who added that he sees no reason for this checkpoint.)
There is only one young man waiting to cross to the seamline zone. He is a student who claims that on Saturday morning he was detained for longer than usual at the checkpoint and is constantly late for lectures at the University of Jenin as a result.
14:40 – A car comes in to be checked and leaves after three minutes. By 15:55 a person crossed through to the West Bank on a bicycle, and a man and small child crossed to the seamline zone.
16:00-17:20
“’That's the way the Jews are."
In the upper parking lot there are two vans and a car departing for Barta'a. We walked down to the lower parking lot. A small truck with four passengers crosses to the West bank within three minutes. A van enters from the other side and waits at the first station to be checked.
Hana calls what goes on here "waiting for a minyan." Every car that arrives is not permitted to proceed to the inspection point. Instead they wait for several cars to accumulate and the passengers who arrived after several minutes had to wait in line for 45 minutes to an hour.
When we asked one of the passengers why this was so he said, "That's the way the Jews are." We waited with them until 17:17 when the gate to the inspection facility finally opened and one car, a taxi, and two transits all drove out at once. On the other hand, passage through the terminal was fast because only workers from the seamline zone were returning to their homes in the West bank since workers were not permitted to enter Israel today because of the closure.
Someone calls our attention to what was going on in the parking lot. The police from Jenin were present and were confiscating ID cards belonging to people who had not paid traffic fines that they received in Israel.
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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