Reihan, Shaked, Sun 18.5.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked

Tags: Closure Slow passage

Observers: Chana H, Ruti T (reporting)

May-18-2008

| Morning

05:55 – 08:45

05:55 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint

Upper parking lot (on the Seam Zone side): twenty people have already come out of the terminal in the direction of the Seam Zone. The checkpoint opened at 05:30, but most say that they have been waiting since 03:00 in order to be early in getting a number in line. A single man arriving from the Seam Zone, and hurrying to work in school, has to wait while ten men are processed from the other side, because only one checking station is working at the end of the lane for the few people entering the West Bank, and the many coming out. Somebody voices the complaint: "Each day is worse…" We time entry and exit of one person: he went into the installation at 06:15 and comes out at 06:45.

06:35 � the lower parking lot (on the West Bank side), 13 loaded pick ups waiting to be inspected. The lower gate is presently empty. Somebody arrives � and goes straight in.

07:15 Shaked Checkpoint

The gate is open. Some 20 people, three vehicles, and two flocks of sheep waiting on the other side to cross to the Seam Zone. Passage from the turnstile to the exit takes five minutes per person. The schoolchildren arriving from the direction of the Seam Zone pass without a check. The students also pass immediately, but wait for their taxi which is still delayed at the gate. The taxi comes after seven minutes.

07:40 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint

Few pass from Bartaa to the West Bank. The lower gate is also empty. Seems that many people thought the closure was not yet cancelled. Nine pick up trucks with produce are waiting in the lower lot. At 07:42 eight men arrive from the direction of the West Bank. The first of them comes out of the terminal after five minutes. A time span that is particularly worth noting. Three vehicles being inspected. They exit at 08:05, in other words after at least 25 minutes. Five vehicles waiting on the road to be checked. The next quartet goes in for inspection at 08:08 and comes out at 08:24. Four pick up trucks that entered at 07:00 come out at 908:20. A tender carrying sheep goes through with the passenger cars (not the produce trucks). At 08:30, six pick up trucks and five passenger cars are waiting.

08:45 � we leave.

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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