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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 6.1.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Identification Cards (ID)
Observers: Dvora S. and Hanna H. (reporting)
Jan-06-2008
| Morning
Shaked-Tura – 07:00
The CP opens and people are beginning to go through to the seamline zone. About 50 people, who organized themselves in a queue beginning at 5:00 AM, are waiting. Little by little groups of students begin to arrive  from the seamline zone side , and they go through immediately. Students on their way to Jenin arrive in taxis. The taxis go through within five minutes; the drivers do not go through the inspection pavilion; people go through in both directions at the same time.

Old Barta'a CP – 07:35
A herd of sheep has already gone through. The passage for people is very slow and those going through complain that it is slower than usual. A young fellow, who goes through with his father every day at this CP and also at the Reihan CP, has been detained with the claim that his ID is counterfeit. When we talked to the father near the gate, we were told to get out with the excuse that there was a "warning and you're not allowed to crowd together." When we tried to talk to the CP commander, he was not willing to respond and we even had the "privilege" of being bad-mouthed. One of those going through told us that this year he was not allowed to pick his olives.

Reihan CP – 08:00
In the inspection compound there are four loaded pickup trucks which entered at 07:10. In the parking lot another nine loaded pickup trucks are waiting.
Four vehicles (private cars and a taxi) are being inspected in the shed; inspection takes about 20 minutes.
At 8:10 the first pickup trucks with their goods, leave and four other pickup trucks enter. They left after an hour.
The expansion of the CP icontinuing – two pieces of earth–moving equipment are digging and laying pipes. In the sleeve, there is slow but continuous pedestrian movement in both directions. But it turns out that inside the terminal, there is still, at this time, some serious delay. People leave after having to stay in the terminal for about an hour .
A taxi with pasengers which arrived at 08:30 is released from the vehicle CP at 09:20. The passengers were released only at 09:25.
Passage from the seamline zone to the West Bank is conducted quickly and in an orderly fashion.

  • 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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