Reihan, Shaked, Sun 23.9.12, Morning
Translation: Naomi Gal
Shaked – Torre Checkpoint 06:55
The checkpoint gates are open. Pupils from Daher el Malech arrive on foot, their village is nearby and they are going to school in Tura across the barrier. The driver Y. is with a newer and smaller car. He no longer drives students. We wonder who is now driving the Bedouin children from Anin checkpoint.
The traffic on the way to the West Bank is running smoothly, pedestrians' and vehicles' alike. The procedure is as usual: pedestrians are waiting to be summoned by a soldier. The drivers get checked in the booth, go back and drive their cars to the checkpoint, once the car is checked they are free to go on their way.
Ruthy goes to observe the checkpoint from the orchard on its left side. The soldiers are alarmed, although she did not enter a prohibited zone. Do they have something to hide?
A 45-year-old Palestinian complains that there's a police order barring him from entering Israel for life. He already spoke to Sylvia and Haya, our friends, who assist those who have prevention orders, but they were unable to help him. He opts not to hire a lawyer, maybe it’s not worth it. He may cross only to the seam line zone and settles for this.
Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint 07:30
The Palestinian parking lot is so crowded that we were hardly able to enter the terminal gate on foot.
Apparently traffic flows smoothly. Workers are waiting in the upper parking lot for transportation to East Barta'a and to the seam zone.
We picked up N. for a medical check-up at the Rambam Hospital. We were held up at the crossing of the Israeli vehicles. Following an inquiry with R. we were asked to go up to where cars are being checked. There were about 8 private cars ahead of us, but we must commend the fact that N. and her companion were sent to be screened ahead of the others and so we were able to depart with no further delays.
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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