Reihan, Shaked, Sun 31.1.10, Afternoon
15:00 Shaked-Tura CP
Four cars are waiting opposite the gate to the CP while on the other side – there is one car which emerges after three minutes.
One man is standing near the turnstile.
A van enters inspection – emerges and goes on its way after two minutes.
The passage through the CP proceeds with no delays.
The lower parking lot is completely full of cars. At 15:30 the seamstresses start to arrive from Barta'a on their way to their homes in the West Bank. On leaving the terminal toward the West Bank there is a path for those entering and a path for those leaving, with separate turnstiles. At the entrance ot the terminal from the side of the seamline zone, people enter and leave through the same turnstile. Many workers are returning from their day's work and those leaving the terminal cause them some delay. At 16:00 the traffic of the workers to the West Bank is stopped. Two women come out going along the same path, through the same window and through the single turnstile that is used by those who are entering.
Four detainees
who are waiting on the bench are called to the window every once in a while and are sent back (after this honor) to the bench. At 16:15 many workers who picked citrus fruit in Hadera arrive. All of them went through the Artach CP in the morning, 'three hours. a complete mess'.A father is waiting for his daughter, a university student. He claims that she has been in the terminal for half an hour. At long last, she comes out looking very serious; she has no bags at all. The passage of the workers now takes 15 minutes. The turnstile opens and shuts about every three minutes.
At 16:35, with the opening of the turnstile, there are about 50 workers waiting nervously. They push with a lot of strength and nervously. We suggest that they should demand to have another window opened. 'Another window? In a dream!' [halon? halom] one of them puns and jokes. But still, at 16:40 finally an additional window is opened and the pressure is freed very quickly.
Why don't they open an additional window a minute before this humiliating pressure is created in the terminal after a hard day's work?
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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