Reihan, Shaked, Sun 15.2.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
6:00 – 7:306:00 – Reihan CP
The CP opened at 5:00 and many workers are now in the upper parking lot waiting for their rides. The tempo of the workers emerging from the sleeve is quick; they come out satisfied and report on immediate entrance and a short stay in the terminal. In the shed of the vehicles leaving for the seamline zone, two cars have been being inspected for more than twenty minutes and their passengers are already waiting up above. They tell us that the total number of those going through the CP has been very small lately. This is both because they have stopped giving out agricultural permits and and also because the ordinary work permits are now given only for a period of two months. And every permit renewal means "five days of not being able to work". A Bedoui with a work permit who lives near Hermesh tells us that he is married to an Israeli who lives in the Bet Shean Valley; she is about to give birth to their second son and he has a hard time getting permits to visit her. In the lower parking lot, eight pickup trucks with goods are waiting for inspection.
7:00 – Shaked CP
The CP opened and immediately fifteen people are near the turnstile. Until 7:10, their passage to the seamline zone is regular; all of them go through the inspection room but they complain about an Arabic-speaking soldier in the room who talks to them rudely. We can even hear his yelling where we stand near the gate. Five cars are waiting to go through to the seamline zone; they enter one after another and the inspection is quick.At 7:10 the first children begin to arrive. They enter the area of the CP immediately but all of them are sent to the inspection room; they wait to enter and come out after a few minutes.At 7:15 a car arrives with students on their way to Jenin. They are also sent to the inspection room. More pupils continue to arrive at the CP; they are sent to the inspection room, and the passage of the workers to the seamline zone stops entirely. Here too, those going through complain that agricultural permits are no longer being handed out and there is still a lot of work to do in the olive groves..
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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