Reihan, Shaked, Sun 30.12.07, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
06:05 – 08:40
Reihan CP – 06:05
The CP opened at 05:30 but it seems that only a few people have gone through so far. The terminal is full and a large number of people are detained in the shed before the entrance to the terminal building. Despite the crowd there are only two inspection posts in operation (out of eight). All those going through complained about the crowding in the inspection rooms. In the lower parking lot, twelve vehicles with goods are waiting. The first has been waiting since yesterday. In the shed four passenger vehicles are being inspected. The gardeners, who will turn into porters at 07:00, are working energetically with rakes to beautify the terminal.
Shaked CP – 07:00
The CP is open and about 30 people begin to go through from the West Bank to the seamline zone. Most of them go through the inspection rooms. The pupils begin to arrive at 07:15 and go through in groups, with the soldiers inspecting their schoolbags.
Old Barta'a CP – 07:30
The CP is open and about 30 people and two herds of goats are waiting to go through to the seamline zone. Ten meters from the CP an electric gate is being constructed to guard those who wish to go through at that distance from the gate. All of them go through.
Reihan CP – 08:00
Above the vehicle inspection shed there are now two more cameras. Passenger cars are inspected in foursomes in 15 minutes. The first four groups of four commercial vehicles go on their way at 08:30 and four others enter the inspection compound. One of the drivers told us that on Friday afternoon (3:00), while he was on his way from Tul Karem to Hawwara, stones were thrown at his car near Yitzhar. His mother was injured and had to go to the hospital in Tul Karem. The windshield was broken and there is damage to one of the lights.
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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