Reihan, Shaked, Sun 24.1.10, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Shaked Checkpoint: 14:40
A truck and a private car drive from the seamline zone to the West Bank and a car from the West Bank drives across quickly to the seamline zone. The driver passes through the inspection booth. A car arrives from the seamline zone driving towards the West Bank with women and babies inside. They wait outside the inspection booth without shelter in the cold wind. The entire process takes five minutes, but in the morning they undoubtedly have to wait longer.
Reihan Checkpoint – 15:00
Workers begin to pass through returning from work. The parking lot on the Palestinian side is filled with cars, but there are no vehicles with merchandise in the closed inspection facility. There is very little traffic at this hour. There are two detainees sitting next to the inspection windows in the terminal who are from Jenin and who came to work in Israel via Jerusalem.
15:15 – The traffic of people coming back is growing heavier. Women and children laden with packages returning from Jenin together with workers coming from the seamline zone to the West Bank all crows through the turnstile. Agricultural workers from Tel Mond who came through the crowded checkpoint at Tibeh in the morning are now returning to Yaabed through Reihan.
15:45 – The entrance to the terminal begins to be crowded. There are 30 people waiting crowded next to the turnstile. There are also at least 20 people trying to squeeze through the turnstile in the opposite direction coming from Jenin. People entering the terminal at 15:40 come out at 16:00. Another window opens in the terminal.
16:00 – there are now 50 people waiting next to the entranced and the turnstile is growing even more crowded. The two detainees are still waiting to be taken care of.
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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