Reihan, Shaked, Sun 7.6.09, Afternoon
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15:00 Shaked Checkpoint
15:40 Reihan Checkpoint
In the lower (Palestinian) parking lot no tenders with produce. But the lot itself is full of cars waiting for passengers. Workers arriving slowly. Four new taxis waiting and "grabbers" waiting for livelihood.
A pickup arrives with produce to wait from now (16:00) for tomorrow morning’s queue!
The upper (Israeli) lot, the entry is flowing. At the entrance next to the turnstiles, seven detainees are sitting on the side: they say they have already been here a long time, and want to return to Jenin, but have no permit.
16:40 – a greater flow of returning people, but only one window open.
16:50 – the detainees, who claim to have been here since the morning, are released.
The line gets longer, and it is clear that there are people going in and out at the turnstile, and this slows the traffic. 21 men are waiting. When we leave, there are more.
People repeat their complaint that in the mornings they must travel to work via Taibe, which makes the trip much longer, more expensive and causes early rising (04:00). One worker tells us that a building materials plant employs 150 labourers from Yaabed, but only 50 are able to cross in the morning at Reihan. All the rest have to spend money on taxis, get up earlier and cross at Taibe. In the afternoon they can cross in much shorter time at Reihan Checkpoint. Why isn’t there a similar arrangement in the mornings?!!! A worker tells us of a rumour that from today Taibe is improving and the crossing is much faster, but the long ride and early rising still remain. They ask us to act to change the situation, particularly in the coming month of Ramadan when the problem will be harsher… |
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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