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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 5.10.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Passage Restrictions Slow passage
Observers: Sima S. and Hanna H.
Oct-05-2008
| Morning

Translation: Devorah K.
06:15 – 08:15
06:15 Reihan CP
The CP opened at five and most of the workers – men and women – have already gone through. It seems that the time spent in the terminal is shorter. A pedestrian who arrived at 06:10 has already left and the car in which he arrived was inspected at the vehicle CP and left at 06:30. The tempo is slow but stable. Apparently the fact that workers going to Israel no longer go through here has improved the passage for those that are allowed to go through here.
Agricultural workers in Kibbutz Metzer were delayed at the CP until 06:45 until it was clear that they are permitted to go through at the Reihan CP. Ten pickup trucks with goods are waiting for inspection in order to go through. There are a few cars in the Palestinian parking lot. A resident of Kafin complains that they have not yet been given the permits they need for the olive picking season which will soon be here.
07:00 Four pickup trucks enter the compound for inspection.
07:10 Shaked CP
On our way we saw workers that have already gone through the CP from the West Bank to the seamline zone. When we arrived at the CP we saw about twenty people crowded near the turnstile. Students and pupils go through to the West Bank after their bags are inspected. The inspection of the vehicles going through the CP is quick — 1 to 2 minutes.
Pupils go through one by one and their bags are examined. The soldiers transfer the cars only in one direction — from the West Bank to the seamline zone. Our telephone call to the DCO did speed up the passage of the cars with pupils, which were on their way at 07:40, but the soldiers reported that the reason for the delay was that "two women from Machsom Watch are interfering with the passage."
Now again they are letting cars through to the seamline zone and delay the entrance of a teacher's car until 07:50.
It is totally clear that the CP procedures depend on the soldiers' moods and there are no precise and uniform operating instructions.
At 07:45 there are still nine workers waiting to go through to the seamline zone.

  • 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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