Reihan, Shaked, Sun 27.6.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
6:00-7:40
06:00 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
"It's OK today. Today they are working well." Workers coming out of the terminal in small groups greet us. The seamstresses are picked up at 06:02. Tenders are in the inspection facility. We went down to the lower parking lot to check whether it was crowded at the gate to the terminal and people were going in one at a time as we had heard. We found that this was not true and people were going in groups. They entered the inspection facility quickly. The guard at the entrance says that it was not crowded. "What was it like at 05:00?" The guard explains that he cannot talk about that. A tender going to the West Bank goes through within a minute and people pass through in ten to fifteen minutes. Some leave the terminal as the vehicle they arrived in enters the inspection facility, and they will have to wait another twenty or thirty minutes until It comes out.
05:58 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
The gate close to us is open and the inspection facility is being opened. At 07:01 the herd of goats approaches the inner gate and a female soldier tells us to get back and that we cannot enter. The soldiers are busy checking permits of an Israeli car entering the checkpoint from the direction of West Bank. The car is doing engineering work and there is already a new and modern steam roller and heavy equipment. The herd goes through at 07:08 and turns eastward. A young English lecturer who teaches at the American University in Jenin and comes through here every day is pleased with the way the checkpoint is running and says there are no problems.
Two soldiers arrive and are determined that we not cross the imaginary line of the gate and occupy themselves with the gathering at the gate. A taxi with female students arrives at 07:14 and enters the inspection facility at 07:17 when the first car drives through to the seamline zone.
A blue transit with J, the driver (whom Nava referred to as Y) reports that he has not been harassed for the past three days when he comes back from the West Bank. He now goes through within three minutes. At 07:40 there are three people near the turnstile.
There are tobacco plants growing in the olive grove but as far as we know they are no longer fit to pick.
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
See all reports for this place-
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
See all reports for this place-
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
-