Reihan, Shaked, Sun 25.4.10, Morning
Translated by Dvora K.
5:50 Reihan-Barta'a
Two cars leave the inspection area and pick up the workers who are waiting on the road on the way to the seamline zone. At 5:55 seven pickup trucks with goods and one ordinary car go up for inspection. After three minutes an additional truck and another car go up. In the parking lot on the Palestinian side, they are covering three pickup trucks, loaded with agricultural products, with nylon cling wrap. All the boxes are held together by the nylon "because of the forklift", they explain. They will be unwrapped and inspected one by one and wrapped again by the people who do the inspection.
Very few people ask to enter the terminal. We wondered if there was pressure when it opened. The driver, A., claims that there were not even ten people near the turnstile at 5:00 this morning.
At 6:24 a woman and two children arrive at the terminal They are seen in the sleeve coming out withing eight minutes. In the upper parking lot there are five vas waiting and workers waiting for their rides as usual.
6:50 Shaked-Tura
The CP opens at 7:00 on the dot. Seven minutes later the passage begins. Three young men go into the inspection room and a woman student who goes across the CP is called back; she is inspected on the spot and sent on her way. The teacher enters with the small Fiat at 07:10 and goes on his way after two minutes. The young banker from Daher-el-Malek, who works in the new bank that was opened in Ya'abed, tells us that on Saturday everything was a mess. The CP opened only at noon. Now he goes through in his car within three minutes. A few people come from the other side, busy closing their belts. The schoolbags of the pupils are inspected as at rifle is pointed at their feet by someone who appears to be the body guard of the soldier doing the inspection.
At 7:26 twelve people are still waiting near the turnstile.
At 7:27 the blue Transit arrives full of tiny children. The children get out of the vehicle and into it, with the soldier on guard pointing his gun down from his waist almost touching them. We do not remember ever having seen a sight of this kind.
At 7:31 the driver returns smiling: "Yallah. It's over!" and goes on his way. A herd of goats arrives from the direction of the West Bank at 7:50 and goes through in eight minutes. A woman leaves a carriage with a baby in it near the concrete cube, returns to the inspection room and comes running back in a minute. A soldier who apparently missed seeing what she did, approaches her to inspect her papers. She goes on to the isolated house.
At 8:00 a small herd of goats arrives from the direction of Dir-el Malek. Some of them are kids in the arms of children. It was a lovely picture that we photographed, of course. Somebody asks to buy two kids for sixty. They offer him one kid for sixty. That is too expensive. The exchange is canceled. A heavy tractor and a few workers in shiny vests — are busy preparing the foundations for the new shed.
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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