Reihan, Shaked, Sun 7.8.11, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
17:00 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint Drivers are sitting on the step waiting for passengers and there are only a few people at this time. Most of the people coming are carrying shopping bags, perhaps because of Ramadan.
We talk with one of the drivers, who says that his six-year-old son is fasting because of Ramadan. He says that on a good day he has four trips and earns NIS 200. The last time we spoke with a driver he said he only had two trips each day. HE says that women have an easier time finding work, but that his wife remains at home to work and care for the children.
Several drivers approach us about requesting permits that have been refused and ask for our help. We ask one of the drivers from the seamline zone why he was refused a permit and he explains that when he was a teenager he was imprisoned in "Ketziot" for several months after he threw stones at Israeli soldiers. The gate and turnstile are open most of the time and whoever arrives crosses through. Suddenly a military vehicle drives up between the building and the gate. All the crossings are closed and everyone has to wait for some time. We left at 17:50.
18:00 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
There is very little traffic. A second lieutenant, a kibbutznik from the Jezreal Valley wearing a helmet and a bonnet like hat, came to warn us about reckless drivers, particularly during Ramadan. When we seemed doubtful, he went on to tell us about a seven-year-old who was caught here with a belt containing explosives. When we had not heard about that either he said, "What, haven't you heard about the "suicide" Valley near A'anin either?" Suddenly we heard a ten-year-old child cryingand a child came running back from the checkpoint in the direction of the West Bank. He uncle had come to pick him up on the seamline zone side and the soldiers did not let him cross the checkpoint. His uncle called to him across the barbed wire fence and he was told to go through the inspection facility. We applauded him for his bravery. Meanwhile his uncle told us about his 71-year-old father who needs to undergo radiation therapy in Jerusalem and is in need of a ride to the hospital. We referred him to Yuval Roth.
We left at 18:40.
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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