Reihan, Shaked, Sun 22.4.12, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
15:45-17:30
15:45 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
A woman arriving from the West Bank gazes at the poles that have been built at the checkpoint. We look at them together and I tell her that they are building the Tura Castle. She claims is the Dar Al Malak Castle and we both laugh. There are four elaborate pillars arranged in a rectangle with wooden poles like old telephone poles. Palestinian workers are laying new curbstones. Most of the people coming through the checkpoint are women and children. At this time of day drivers merely show their green ID cards and drive through without being checked. Pedestrians must go through the inspection room. I give a lift to a woman and child going to Um Reihan.
16:35 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Three women, one of them a driver, arrive with a disabled man. They help him get out of the car and seat him in his wheelchair. Two of them leave the man with his weary wife and leave the checkpoint. I suggest that they try to get through the vehicle checkpoint rather than take the long way through the terminal. After a phone call they are given permission and cross quickly. A young man is permitted to help them on the condition that he returns through the terminal. .The entire sleeve is now covered with a roof.
There is no crowding at the entrance to the terminal and people arriving pass through quickly. A child is crying inside the terminal, and one window is open. At 17:15 10 particularly cheerful workers arrive. Another window opens. The he upper parking lot on the seamline zone side is empty. Workers are cleaning the restrooms. The parking lot on the Palestinian side is completely full as it usually is at this time of day.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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