Reihan, Shaked, Sun 4.3.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:05-06:55 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
Today women are quickly crossing through the terminal. "Today everything is OK. It takes five minutes." Men emerge fastening their belts. They report that things were difficult last week and they only got out after 07:00. There are eight loaded vans waiting on the road to be checked. Someone asks us to help eliminate a "police ban" [to enter Israel] from 2006 and we advise him the best we can.
07:00-07:30 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The soldiers arrived precisely at 07:00 and the checkpoint opened two minutes later. The school bags belonging to the children who arrive on foot from the nearby village of Dar al Malakh are checked by a woman soldier, with no help from the armed male soldier standing next to her, and by 07:10 they are already on the other side, in Tura. The school principal finally crossed after being made to go back twice and start his old car, while the elegant banker crossed immediately in his new car.
Only a few people crossed this morning. It is very cold and the fields are muddy. The farmers are no doubt happy with the rain that fell over the weekend but had not choice today but to remain at home. A worker who works in the Shahak Industrial zone asks that the checkpoint be opened at 06:00, because at 07:00 he is delayed while schoolchildren, teachers, and students are crossing.
We returned to Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint to pick up H. and his son and take them to Rambam Hospital. At 07:30 there were van emerging from the inspection facility on their way to 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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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