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Reihan, Shaked, Sun 6.7.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Crowding DCO (District Coordination Offices) Detainees Slow passage Women
Observers: Yocheved J. and Hannah H. (reporting)
Jul-06-2008
| Morning
Translation: Devorah K.

Reihan CP  – 05:55
The CP opened at five and all the people were put into the inspection rooms at the sides because the machine is out of order again.
Some of the people have already left the CP. A few among them complain that due to health problems (back and kidneys), they find it very difficult to spend time in such a small room — about 50 minutes.
They report to us that now the rooms are full and that is why some of the adults (10%) are kept out of them.
Only one window is operating at the exit.
We go down into the sleeve and see a stream of people leaving quickly — 30 in five minutes. The women tell us that all of them were put into the rooms but since one of those in charge of the CP was in the passage, the stay in the rooms was very short.
06:20 – Those who arrive at the CP gate enter immediately. Those leaving report that they had to stay in the CP for 30 to 40 minutes.
The conditions of leaving the CP are not uniform. Apparently the person who is in charge has gone away. A young woman worker, about 25 years old, is detained at the CP every day with the excuse that her permit is not valid and she has to clarify it at the DCO. Shd did appeal to the DCO several times and there they tell her that "everything is in order and there is no problem" and they will confirm this to the CP. But apparently the report has not reached the CP. She is still detained every morning and because of her all her colleagues are late to work.

In the vehicle CP, four cars are being inspected in both directions. In the closed compound trucks with goods are being inspected.
06:45 – About 30 people are waiting in the upper parking lot for a ride to work. Some of them came in a taxi at six o'clock; they went through the CP but the taxis have not yet gone through the inspection.

Shaked CP   07:00
The gate is open and all the people on the side of the West Bank have entered and are waiting near the turnstile. But some of them were turned back. Almost all the people who come from the West Bank go through inspection (except for one old woman, the children, and the herds). The passage is quick — 2 minutes.
Most of the workers from the seamline zone do not go through the inspection room. Vehicles go through in both directions. The passage is quick. All those going through today are pleased.

Reihan CP   07:40
The people who come to the main gate of the CP enter immediately. They leave the CP within ten minutes.
Seven pickup tucks with goods are waiting in the parking lot for inspection. The drivers tell us that the market in Barta'a is not making any money and there are even problems with selling eggs. Passenger cars from the West Bank to the seamline zone are inspected in 15 minutes.
The bus and the taxis from Barta'a with their passengers are inspected in 15 minutes.
By contrast the pickup trucks that entered inspection at 06:00 are released at 08:00!

  • 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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