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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 25.11.07, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Slow passage
Observers: Dvora S, Chana H (reporting)
Nov-25-2007
| Morning

07:05 – 08:40
07:05 Shaked Checkpoint

The checkpoint is open and the schoolchildren are passing on the run, their satchels being checked, from the Seam Zone to Tura.
Workers from the West Bank are passing one by one through the inspection hut and registration at the "office."
The three teachers from Tura only cross at 07:20, and a car is waiting to take them quickly to school.

07:35 Reihan Checkpoint

At the upper parking lot we're told that the checkpoint opened at 05:30, but transit was very slow and the Shahak workers only went to work at 07:20.
There were perhaps 150 people in the terminal, mostly put in the inspection rooms.
Roughly at 07:00 one of the supervisors came to inspect and spoke to the transients, who complained about the slowness of the process. Following that, at 07:10 according to them, transit began to be faster.
By the exit from the sleeve an Israeli contractor was waiting for his workers, and he also complained that since the privatisation of the checkpoint there is a considerable delay in going to work.
07:55 — at the vehicle crossing the developmental and building impetus continues, and as a result the inspection procedure for vehicles is different.
The first three tenders with produce are still in the closed compound, and 12 more are waiting in the parking lot.
Private cars en route to the Seam Zone are being checked in twos on the road.
At 08:00 four pick ups with produce enter the inspection compound.
Transit of pedestrians at the checkpoint is a steady flow in both directions. Sometimes the lower gate closes, and 20 or so people gather by it, but it opens within five minutes.
Recently the drivers greet us at the checkpoint with complaints about Mevo Dotan Checkpoint, where they do not always allow drivers without Reihan permits to go by. Much more absurd is the fact that Yaabed and Meriha residents are not allowed to get to their fields if they don't have Reihan permits (what possible connection is that?). I spoke with Katie at Central Command, who explained that the regulation is that drivers transporting people can pass even if they don't have permits, as may official taxis, but other people must have a Reihan permit.
In other words, their movement in the West Bank is restricted to the environs of their villages!
 

  • 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).

  • 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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