Reihan, Shaked, Sun 6.3.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Three weeks ago I heard from Palestinian workers about the accelerated construction in the settlements, so today we went to see it. We could not enter Reihan because the gate locked automatically. On our way to Hinanit we looked out over Tel Menasheh, which was designated to be a neighborhood of Hinanit, but has become a separate Orthodox settlement. There are also many trailers in which future residents of Hinanit will live when the building is completed. We counted more than ten houses under construction in Hinanit, where the construction has been halted. Our conclusion is that they are building in order to stay.
Reihan – Barta'a Checkpoint
We arrived about an hour after the checkpoint has opened, at 06:00. We usually see workers waiting for their cars to be checked, but today we saw cars that had already been checked waiting for workers to come out of the terminal. Evidently there was a problem inside the terminal and people had to wait about an hour to get through. One Palestinian showed us a paper stating that he had not returned home the previous evening before 21:00 at night and that if it happens again his permit will be revoked. He claims that he had come back, and that he was now here to prove it since he had now come from his home. It is not clear to us whether he had not come back before 21:00, or had come back but not listed.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened before we arrived. Cars from the seamline zone are checked in the following manner: The driver approaches the checkpoint, gets out, and is checked in the inspection booth. And then his car is checked and they cross. The procedure is more complicated going in the opposite direction: The driver has to drive up, leave his car, be checked, and then return to the car for it to be checked and then retrieve his documents in the inspection booth.
An elderly man is waiting on the seamline zone side. We noticed that crossing from the West Bank was being held up. One teacher had already crossed, but another two were still waiting beside the turnstile. A young woman carrying a baby girl comes out. She was delayed for a long time because the baby was listed in her father's ID card and not in hers. Finally the baby was given to her grandfather and they came out together. The teachers also arrived. An old man arrives on his white donkey. A car filled with young children arrives and well-dressed little girls let the soldier check their schoolbags. It doesn't seem strange to anyone except to us that young children have to be checked every day on the way to school. It's merely the routine of the occupation.
We also met the Palestinian who was beaten by soldiers several weeks ago and required medical treatment at the hospital. He didn't understand Hebrew and when the soldier spoke to him he thought he had been asked to pick up his shirt and remove his belt. When he raised his hands, his pants fell down. The soldier was insulted or angry and hit him and he was taken to the hospital in Jenin. He was not happy with his treatment there and asked to be taken to hospital in Israel. One of our members referred him to the Association for Human rights and he was offered legal aid to pursue a lawsuit, but in the end he was not interested and his condition eventually improved.
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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