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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 18.11.07, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Passage Restrictions
Observers: Mara, Shula
Nov-18-2007
| Morning

08:00 – 09:10

08:00 Rihan Checkpoint

Routine morning activity: constant flow of people from the West Bank to the Seam Zone, few also passing the other way.
Around the upper parking lot white minibuses are waiting to transport those coming from the West Bank. Men are coming out of the terminal towards Bartaa. There are no complaints about the transit today.
One man says there is a test that checks whether hands have been in contact with suspect materials.
Surprise of the day, two new huge plant pots on the side road that crosses the terminal compound.
Dotan Checkpoint lottery: today they let all the drivers pass at Dotan Checkpoint.
In the lower parking lot 11 commercial vehicles loaded with eggs, vegetables, and one with sheep, waiting to cross. At the vehicle checkpoint, three commercial and one private vehicle are being inspected in parallel. The routine is familiar: the driver descends and leaves all the doors open, including the baggage compartment, and goes to sit on the side. The civilian security man checks, with or without the dog. The commercial vehicles continue on into the closed compound, while the private car is free to continue on its way.
From the direction of the West Bank six private cars are waiting to pass.
Walid wants a computer. Who has one?

08:30 Shaked Checkpoint

By the checkpoint gate a young man is standing. He and his four brothers live in the same house in the small village of Dahar el Malch, close to the checkpoint, and all the quintet are using one vehicle that serves everyone. The problem is that only one brother is registered as owner on the license, and the soldiers make problems for the other brothers. He is now waiting for Bassam, who is at the checkpoint, and wants to resolve the issue with him The checkpoint is currently being visited by the deputy brigade commander, Menashe, the Head of DCO and Bassam. They come to talk to us. The anticipated and frustrating conversation ensues. Two opposing lines of thought clash…

  • 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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