Reihan, Shaked, Sun 15.3.09, Morning
6:00-7:20
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Reihan Checkpoint: 6:00
About 20 men and women in the upper parking lot are waiting for their rides to work, and report that they got through the checkpoint quickly. Once again they inform us that there are a lot of problems with the biometric equipment – mainly among the women – who are sent to the Liaison and Coordination Administration again and again. One of the people from [the village of] Yaabed tells us about his wife whose father, a resident of Dir El Malak, is sick. When she wants to visit him she has to submit a request to the Palestinian Authority in Jenin where the paper work takes almost 20 days. The Liaison and Coordination Administration then issues her a permit to visit for only one day. We went down the sleeve to the terminal, where only one window was operating but passage is efficient and orderly. 4 passenger cars going towards the seamline zone are being checked in the shed – the examination takes about 20 minutes. 2 taxis with passengers going to Jenin are being checked in the vehicle checkpoint. Each check takes about 5-7 minutes.6:45 – 10 tenders with goods are waiting in the lower parking lot. A tender carrying only eggs passes through the vehicle checkpoint. People who arrive at the checkpoint go into the terminal immediately.
Shaked Checkpoint – 07:00
The checkpoint is open and people are being held up next to the gate. They begin to go through only at 7:05. Little children being led by their parents go past the soldiers and immediately exit in the direction of the school without being checked. Small children who arrive at the checkpoint without an adult accompanying them walk to the inspection booth and pass through it. The soldiers answer our question by informing us that young children don’t need to go through the inspection booth, but for some reason no one has told this to the children. Older pupils and university students must go through the inspection booth. We are told that on Thursday there was an argument about this between the children’s parents and the soldiers when the soldiers insisted on making all the children pass through the inspection booth.
Cars pass through in both directions and are let into the checkpoint alternatively. They are given a short 1-2-minutes check.
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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