Reihan, Shaked, Sun 29.6.08, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
05:55 – 08:20
About 10 vans are waiting for workers in the upper parking lot. M., emerging from the terminal, reports that the CP opened at 05:20 (instead of at 05:00, as promised, and as has already been done several times). A worker tells us that he has missed his ride to work in Beth-Shean. He is going back home. A day's work lost.
Quotes from those leaving the sleeve that leads toward the seamline zone:
"Every day it's a different time."
"Every day the machine is out of order."
"Every day there's something new."
Still, we can see that the workers are exiting quickly: 35 people in 5 minutes. But the tempo of the exit is not uniform. After a few minutes, it slows to 12 people in 6 minutes.
At 06:00, as we go down the sleeve, we notice a new phenomenon from afar: Pickup trucks with goods are entering the compound for inspection, an hour earlier than usual. In the inspection compound for passenger cars there is only one car. On the exit from the terminal, all those coming out confirm that the new x-ray machine is out of order and all of them are required to go through the side inspection rooms, but the passage today is faster.
At 06:30 there are five pickup trucks with goods in the lower parking lot . We are told that since last week, the pickup trucks come in for inspection at 06:00 already. "Is that a good thing?" "Good, good". Sa'id, Walid's younger brother, has fallen asleep at his coffee stand. The area for inspecting passenger cars is empty. We hear complaints about how slow things move at the Mevo Dothan CP. Is that why there are so few cars iwaiting for inspection?
We listen to the story about something that took place at the agricultural CP, Aqaba, which was set up instead of the old Barta'a CP: In the morning a farmer entered the CP with his 13–year–old son. He registered for himself +1. At noon, he learned that he is only allowed to bring children up to the age of 12 with him. He claimed that the age of the child was known in the morning but that did not help. His permit was confiscated immediately. Without any prior notice, without warning. Now he cannot get to his olive grove. The affair is being clarified at the DCO in TulKarem.
07:10 – Shaked-Tura CP
Seven people are waiting near the turnstile. A car that was going in the direction of the seamline zone passed inspection in a minute. The passage of the people from the turnstile through the inspection room also takes about a minute. At 07:15 a man with two little children arrives, going in the direction of the West Bank. They go through the inspection room in 20 seconds. It seems that this CP is working efficiently. Pupils and students are all on vacation.
07:35 – Back to Reihan-Barta'a
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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