Reihan, Shaked, Sun 15.6.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked

Observers: Yocheved G, Chana H (reporting), Guest: Naomi

Jun-15-2008

| Morning

06:05 – 08:30

06:05 Reihan Checkpoint

Perhaps 30 have already come out of the checkpoint and are waiting for transport.

The checkpoint opened at 05:30 and, according to the transients, passage today was efficient and coordinated between the various stations. In addition, two windows are operating in the exit. There are rumours that tomorrow the checkpoint will open at 05:00.

The rate is roughly 250 people an hour (as promised!).

At 06:20 there are already no people waiting at the main gate into the terminal.

The workers of the security company let us enter the terminal and asked us to wait for Sharon. Meanwhile we saw the activity at the exit windows – IDs handed in, checked by the worker, and the transient undergoes biometric identification (finger prints).

Sharon arrived and also gave us the happy announcement that morning openings were being brought forward to 05:00.

At 06:35 as the pressure drops inside the terminal, the second window closes. At this hour the traffic in both directions is very sparse. In the lower parking lot 11 loaded tenders are waiting.

06:40 – only ten workers waiting for transport in the parking lot.

07:00 Shaked Checkpoint

The checkpoint is opened, with some 30 men waiting to cross to the Seam Zone. Crossing time, including waiting by the turnstile until entering the inspection room is five or six minutes. Cars also pass quickly in both directions.

A taxi with students from the Seam Zone arrives at 07:15 and is released, with its passengers, after 14 minutes. The students are not checked in the inspection room.

At 07:30 as we leave, there are still 11 people waiting to cross to the Seam Zone.

07:45 Reihan Checkpoint

At the vehicle checkpoint in the direction of the West Bank a taxi and a bus with passengers. After inspection they continue, the taxi after quarter of an hour, and the bus after 25 minutes.

In the waiting plaza developmental work and gardening continue apace, but some of the travellers prefer to pass through the terminal "because it is faster." At the vehicle checkpoint, in the direction of the Seam Zone, four passenger cars are checked for more than 30 minutes. Four loaded pick up trucks entered the compound for checking at 07:00 and did not emerge until 08:30. The efficiency displayed in the terminal is not noticeable at the vehicle crossings.

People arriving at the terminal, from both directions, exit after ten minutes.

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).
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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