Reihan, Shaked, Sun 18.7.10, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint 15:00
There is heavy traffic at the checkpoint. People who are coming out report that most of the trouble is caused by someone named Gilad who makes crossing more difficult. They report that if there is a representative from the Liaison and Coordination Administration present things go more smoothly but problems begin again if they leave.
It is very hot and there is no shelter for women and children waiting next to the turnstile on the Palestinian side. This should be reported. No one comes out for 20 minutes. Finally a woman comes out and reports that there is a woman inside with children. They want to bring wedding presents across .they are not allowed and are being delayed.
In the end they come out on the Palestinian side and are told to go back to the West Bank. The problem arose when their permit was taken when they left Um a-Reihan and they have no permit to enter the village where they lived. Now they have come for a wedding celebration with the children and cannot enter. 40 minutes later a vehicle arrived with an officer from the Liaison and Coordination Administration together with one from the Palestinian Authority an officer. It became clear that people who are married to residents of the West Bank are not allowed to move freely and conduct family visits to Um A-Reihan in the seamline zone. The person from the Liaison and Coordination Administration promised that if they went to Salem today the matter would be straightened out and new permits would be issued. When we left we did not see them coming back.
16:20 – Reihan Checkpoint
About 15 people are waiting and only one window is open. We heard people complain again about the situation at Irtah in the morning. People are delayed in the inspection rooms for over an hour. The situation is especially difficult for young people. Why haven't the people in charge learned that they need to open another window between 4:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon when there are a lot of people, especially now that children are on vacation from school and are with their parents? The checkpoint continues operating in the same old way.
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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