Reihan, Shaked, Sun 28.2.10, Morning
6:00 Rihan Barta'a checkpoint
Due to the closure there is little activity at the checkpoint. 4 vans wait for workers. A rumor that the Shachak [industrial zone] workers are banned from going to work today was refuted a while later. B. says that a talk with the DCO enabled passage of those working there. People come out of the terminal in a slow pace and in small groups. A pickup truck crosses over in a minute in the direction of the West Bank. A taxi with female students drive through within precisely 10 minutes . At the lower car park area driver E. arrives every so often with a few passengers.
We observe on site pickup trucks with merchandise.
An officer who definds himself as Lefty-settler couldn't help himself and inquired about Edna, who appeared on the TV reality game "The Big Brother." By the gate we meet Sharon, the security manager. We also spoke with some female students while waiting for the completion of the inspection of their Taxi. They are on their way to the university in Nablus. They study chemistry, communication, psychology, and nursing. They live in private homes, not in the dorms and no, they are not looking to find husbands there.
6:55 – Shaked-Tura checkpoint
An adult, a youngster, and three children waiting for the opening of the gate. Soldiers arrive at precisely 07:00. On the other side of the gate there are about 10 people waiting by the carousel. there are also a few cars.
There appear to be some sort of hindrance.
At 07:17 the first worker comes out and report of a problem with the computer. A school headmaster who had arrived at 07:07 goes through as well.
At 07:19 a Taxi drives in and in about five minutes all its passengers gather and they set off. Only at 07:21 comes out the second worker from the direction of the West Bank.
At 07:40 the last of the workers come out of inspection; those going into the SeamLine zone are among them, 3 teachers who were late for work and had arrived at the last minute.
Someone says that the soldiers at the checkpoint are "Truly ok". One of them tells us that they are about to go up to the Golan Hights.
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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