Reihan, Shaked, Sun 26.2.12, Afternoon
Translator: Dvora K.
3:00 Shaked / Tura CP
Three cars are waiting for inspection. The commander of the CP approaches us and courteously contests what has been written about him (that he yelled at young boys) when he commanded the A'anin CP. He intends to respond on our site.
A man who lives in Tura and works in Caesaria arrives in a car with an Israeli license plate. He gets out of the car and asks to return to his home in Tura. He is refused because in the CP – 'Fabric of Life' – they do not allow people who come with a car that has an Israeli license plate to go through. He has to drive to Reihan and from there to take a taxi to Tura. That is a long way round.
A young man who has two new tires for a car in his truck is not allowed to go through. He is told to phone the DCO and to ask for a permit. He waits for the DCO to return the call of the soldiers. An unpleasant conversation develops between us. ' During the Shoah the Germans did well, and when there will be war with Iran, they will f….. all the Jews.'
Traffic is light. We talk with a boy from Tura who is waiting for his father. He is 14 years old, an outstanding student in the eighth grade. When he grows up he want to be a high-ranking officer. His older brother works in hi-tech and his sister is married to a Jordanian and lives in Jordan. He has several other brothers and sisters. Two arrive at the CP on bicycles and join the conversation.
4:10 We left.
4:15 Reihan / Barta'a CP
The lower parking lot is full and workers are going through the gate very quickly. From the seamline zone to the West Bank, on their way home. A very large number of people are going through at this time.
Nine trucks are waiting for inspection
4:45 We leave.
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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