Reihan, Shaked, Sun 23.12.07, Morning
Reihan, Shaked, 07:05 – 09:20
07:45 Reihan CheckpointAt 06:20 two girls post-transplants arrived at the checkpoint, with a volunteer from the Bereaved Families Forum, on their way to Hadassah Jerusalem for continued treatment. The girls have a permit for Reihan and went through immediately. We met them when they were waiting for another patient. Anwar Hozla from Yabed, suffering from cancer, with a catheter attached and in a wheelchair, travelling to a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem. His permit did not stipulate Reihan, but according to the volunteer there was an agreement with the army that patients must be allowed to pass for treatment at any checkpoint, because they are dependent on transport. Not only did they prevent the patient from passing to the vehicle of the volunteer, which was located by the vehicle checkpoint, but they also compelled him to pass through the terminal and delayed him there from 06:45 to 08:15. After 07:45 his case was given faster treatment by virtue of our phone call to Sharon, who is in charge of the checkpoint (and he also promised me that they would draw conclusions from the incident).
Pedestrian traffic flowing in both directions. At this hour the delay in the terminal is also not long, but to judge by the noise there are a lot of people inside.
At the lower parking lot, 12 vehicles with cargo are waiting. The first four are taken into the inspection area at 07:00 and come out only at 08:26. At 08:30 three more vehicles are taken in, and after a loud altercation between the drivers and Rabia (in charge of the area), a fourth is also brought in. Under the roof, four passenger cars are inspected for more than half an hour.
I. tells us that at Mevo Dotan all last week, passage was allowed only to residents of Yabed and Amricha, and drivers only with Reihan permits.
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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