Reihan, Shaked, Sun 16.11.08, Morning
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Translated: L.W
05:50 Aanin Checkpoint
Perhaps 40 people are already out. Again we encounter a despairing man, none of whose family have received agricultural permits, and he struggles alone with olive picking. Somebody else tells us that his agricultural permit is about to expire in these days, and though he has not yet finished the harvest, they won’t give him a new permit. Slow trickle of people (two a minute), but they tell us that a great many people (around 100) are still waiting to enter the terminal. Tractors, women, and children will cross last.
06:20 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened at 05:00. Because of the ban on entering the Palestinian parking lot, we can only observe in the Seam Zone. In the terminal, a tremendous crowding of people, but up to 06:20 only one window is functioning. Another opens until 06:45 and the pace does pick up.
People are complaining mainly about crossing in the afternoons. The pressure is heavy and there are not enough functioning windows. It is only after much shouting that an additional window is opened.
Four cars are being checked on their way to the Seam Zone. Their passengers are already through and waiting in the upper lot.
A taxi with passengers passes into the West Bank, the passengers present magnetic cards and IDs for inspection, and are on their way within five minutes. 07:05 Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint is open, but people only begin to pass at 07:15. More than 50 people are crowded at the gate on the West Bank side, with donkeys, a flock of sheep and cars. After five minutes the flock passes, followed by people who begin to file into the inspection room. Men riding donkeys cross without entering the room.
In the direction of the West Bank: schoolchildren are crossing immediately without a check. Teachers only show IDs. A van passes with schoolchildren. They do not allow a sick girl on her way to hospital in Israel to pass first, nor do they forego her entry into the inspection room.
By comparison with recent days, there are many soldiers at the checkpoint. Cars are crossing in both directions simultaneously. Cars carrying schoolchildren and students cross into the West Bank immediately. Loud shouting at the turnstiles, following which a group of workers pass from the West Bank to the Seam Zone without any check. Moti from Mevo Dotan has come to collect his workers.
At 07:30 when we left, 20 men were still waiting, as were four cars, to enter the Seam Zone. 07:45 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint
Everything is routine; four cars on their way to the Seam Zone are being checked. Their passengers are already waiting up above. Ten pickups with produce waiting to be inspected. Some are already being checked in the closed compound. Pedestrians crossing in both directions.
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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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