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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 3.2.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Crowding Slow passage
Observers: Ruthy T. and Hannah H.
Feb-03-2008
| Morning
Translation: Devorah K.

 
Reihan CP – 06:00
The CP opened at 05:40.
Men and women emerge with no special delays. There is no pressure at the gates but inside the terminal there is a lot of noise and the sounds of a loud public address system. The young men and the women who come out report that they had to stay in the inspection rooms for half an hour.
06:20 – in the lower parking lot ten pickup trucks loaded with goods are already waiting and members of the blue (civilian) police force are walking around in the area. Many workers arrive and all of them go through the gate but there is a queue in front of the terminal.
Four passenger cars on their way to the seamline zone are inspected in the shed for more than 30 minutes.

Shaked CP – 06:58
The gate is open and people are going through the inspection rooms in both directions . More than 20 people are waiting to go through to the seamline zone. But suddenly we notice that a few people are sent back. It turns out that in recent days, some of the workers did not go through the Shaked CP, their permits were taken away and they were sent to the DCO at Salem.
07:10 The children are beginning to arrive and they go through immediately in groups.

Old Barta'a (agricultural) – 07:30
The gate is open and the passage of workers, teachers and herds of sheep is regular, orderly and quiet. The inspection of the shepherds' documents is more meticulous than that of the documents of the other workers. The soldiers conduct the inspection of the permits from inside the vehicle.

Reihan CP – 07:50
The passage of vehicles from the seamline zone to the West Bank is slow. There is a long queue that disappears only at 08:10.
A pickup truck with goods on its way to the West Bank is detained at the roundabout in the CP and afterwards is sent for inspection inside the closed compound in the vehicle CP. Four cars that are on the way to the seamline zone are inspected in the shed for 30 minutes; one is held for an additional ten minutes.  
The first four pickup trucks, which entered for inspection in the closed compound at 07:00, are now released at 08:30. The passage of pedestrians is steady in both directions and there is no crowding.

  • 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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