Reihan, Shaked, Sun 17.6.12, Morning
North, 17.6.2012
Translation: Bracha B.A.
7:00-7:50 Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The main gate to the checkpoint is open, but the gate to the new sleeve is still locked. We hear through the communication device that soldiers on the other side of the checkpoint are busy checking the gate.
At 07:12 the gate for pedestrians opens. Three young men pass through. One of them works at the petrol station in Yaabed, which is not far from Tura, but has to make a long detour because of the fence.
At 07:15 a herd of goats crosses the checkpoint going towards the tobacco fields.
At 07:20 the first worker going to the West Bank arrives, and says that a soldier in the inspection facility is learning how to use the computer, and people are consequently coming out sporadically. The driver who is waiting for them is getting impatient ans asks "Shu muskila?" (What's the problem?) over and over.
At 07:43 the last two people finally come out. There is still a small group of people sitting on the ground, waiting.
08:00 – 08:45 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lot on the Palestinian side is almost full. Despite the crowded parking lot the places reserved for buses are still empty since private cars don't park there. There is a new shed in front of the entrance to the terminal which the locals say has been there for a long time. We drink coffee and watch meat imported from Australia being unloaded from a refrigerated truck to a tender. We ask how long the meat will remain outside in the heat. The answer we receive is, "At least five hours. That's because of your democracy. They say there is democracy in Israel, right?"
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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