Reihan, Shaked, Sun 20.6.10, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
16.40 – 15.00
Shaked Checkpoint 15:00
The traffic today is not as it usually is: only four cars and people are going through in both directions. Evidently the checkpoint was closed today from 09:00 – 14:00. The head of the regional council of Dahar el Malak tried to call the Liaison and Coordination Administration but "no one answered." The soldiers told us that two people jumped over the fence and a "security incident" occurred and the checkpoint was closed. The head of the regional council told us that recently they asked to bring a radiator for the generator that is the only source of electricity in the village and they were not permitted to do so. J., a resident of Um a-Reihan who takes school children to Yaabed, complains that the soldiers have been delaying him each day and that he is in danger of losing his livelihood. The soldiers say that he attempted to smuggle something across into the seamline zone. They will not tell us what it was – it's confidential because of security.
Reihan Checkpoint – 15:30
We met a resident of East Barta'a who pumps out the sewage pipes in Barta'a. He owns the only truck in the village that can offer this service. On the 17th of June the civil authorities confiscated the vehicle, claiming that he was pumping sewage in a place that was not permitted. Until now he emptied it in the garbage dump but the dump is now closed. The garbage in East Barta'a is now collected by the Palestinian Authority using a truck that goes through the checkpoint every day and empties it at a place in the West Bank. The truck was confiscated without warming. An alternative place for dumping the waste was set in West Barta'a, where the truck cannot go. We brought clothing to give people and were told to have it checked inside the facility. We were impressed with the cleanliness and order inside.
15:55 – The terminal is quiet. Three detainees are waiting to one side. People with children and babies are returning from the West Bank and workers are returning to the West Bank. Today there are relatively few workers returning from Israel. Evidently today the computers at Irtah had a malfunction and 80% of the workers did not get out to work and returned home.
16:15 – A soldier and security guard come to deal with one of the detainees. After a few questions he is allowed through the checkpoint. The other two are still waiting.
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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