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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 29.3.09, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Youngsters and students
Observers: Hanna H. and Ruthy T.
Mar-29-2009
| Morning

Translation: Devorah K.
 

6:00 Reihan-Barta'a
In honor of daylight saving time, it is raining and cold. Workers are not arriving from the direction of the terminal. In the upper parking lot six Transits are waiting. Somebody tells us that the people who have agricultural permits are not allowed to go out to work because of some computer problem. A worker in the Security Firm confirms that indeed "there is a communication problem that will be fixed shortly." He claims that there is no pressure.

At 6:30 six pickup trucks with goods are waiting in the lower parking lot. The pedestrians' gate is empty. Four cars are being inspected. Two are waiting on the road. A taxi going in the direction of the West Bank is inspected in exactly seven minutes, including the passengers.

6:37 – an agricultural worker whose employer waited for him until 6:30 returns home. He has lost a day's work. At 6:45 nine pickup trucks with goods are now waiting for the passage to open. Four cars go on their way at 6:55. Our acquaintance, the driver, A., claims that some of the workers have not arrived because of the rain and others have still not adjusted to daylight saving time.

7:03 Shaked-Tura
The gate in the direction of the West Bank is open. A young woman to whom we gave a hitch, three little children, and one car — are invited to enter. The children run in the direction of the inspection room. When we ask about this, one of the soldiers claims stubbornly that these are his instructions. A man who arrived in the meantime at the door of the inspection room yells: "Soldier, come and tell him to open." The soldier answers, "slowly, slowly."

At 7:10 our hitchhiker goes through after the children.

At 7:20 a big group of children enters. The adults are allowed to enter one by one. The passage in the CP proceeds and we go on our way to Jalameh, where the little girl who is treated daily in Rambam is waiting for us. Today, she smiles at us.  

  

  • 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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