Reihan, Shaked, Sun 3.5.09, Afternoon
15:15 – 17:00
Shaked-Tura checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet, a few caנs with passengers cross over on both sides, inspection is swift.We meet the father of the school child who was detained together with his uncle, the teacherת on Monday (report of 27.4 לא ראיתי הדו"ח – את יכולה לשלוח לי?), He had just returned from the military court where the teacher's case is sentenced (the pupil was apparently discharged earlier). The teacher would be released within 24 hours with a bail of NIS 10,000. His trail is scheduled for June 1st.2009
Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
There 4 pickup trucks loaded 'ith goods, under unspection in the enclosed area. 2 more are waiting in the lower car park area. 4 vehicles with passengers are inspected at the vehicle's inspectin post. inspection takes 15 minutes.
The lower care park area is full of vehicles awating returning day workers. We speak with those returning from work inside Israel and they (as always) complain of hardships they have to encounter at the Taibe checkpoint. One of them tells us that there 'שד a time when they had tried to get orgenized, they paid an 'usher' who would control order in the line at the entrance to the checkpoint, but the Palestinian police got involved and had prevented that arrangement.
The police commander looked into their complaint at 10:00 am and concluded that " there is no problem".
At 16:30 we notice a begining of busy traffic to both directions.
The orange picking season had ended and the pace of entrance of workers into the terminal is steady. and so, despite the only one window being operational traffic streams along without delays.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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