Reihan, Shaked, Sun 19.6.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint, 12:25-13:10
An Israeli car is parked inside the area of the checkpoint (parents visiting?). In the area of the tower a maintenance crew is digging and building something. The driver of a Palestinian car greets us while threading his belt into his pants after being checked. He gets into his car and drives up to the soldiers, who ask him how things are going, check him briefly, and he leaves.
There is light traffic in both directions. Two cars drive up and workers get out. Several 14-year olds get out and show the soldiers their bag. One of them says that he has a permit. The soldiers check the bag and they move on.
Cars arrive from the seamline zone. Two women get out. One is a young, carrying an infant wrapped in a blanket, and the other is older. Another girl is with them. It takes a long time until the mother is allowed to enter the inspection facility. We call to the soldiers and remind them that a mother with a baby is waiting. One of the soldiers goes to see what the problem is. "Perhaps something happened to the computer." Meanwhile the older woman sits down on the ground. We note how long the inspection process takes for the mother and baby. Evidently people also arrived from the West Bank with a baby together with a man with bags of zucchini. It seems that the woman with the baby has been waiting long, but when she comes out it appears that the entire process took 15 minutes.
More women and children cross in both directions.
Suddenly a woman soldier comes up to me. I thought she was about to tell us to move back but instead she handed me a cold drink. I was surprised and thanked her.
We left and gave the man with the bags of zucchini a ride.
Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint, 13:20-4:00
On our way to the Bedouin village of Emricha to bring bags of used clothing we passed four military vehicles conducting an exercise. The lower parking lot is full.
We returned to the checkpoint. Here, too, there’s construction work in the area of the vehicle inspection facility. We listen to Y.M., a driver who is trying to make a living. He and his wife live in Barta'a. His wife has brain cancer and was operated on in Jordan and is now being treated in Jenin. Her condition is serious and they have three children. Her sister who has no children lives in Jenin and wants to help but has not received a permit to travel to Barta'a in the seamline zone. We want to help them, and if anyone knows how we can help we have their names and contact information.
There is no one crossing the checkpoint and we left.
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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