Reihan, Shaked, Sun 8.2.09, Afternoon
15:30 -Shaked checkpoint
The checkpoint is quiet. Two cars cross over to both directions, inspection is short.
15:50 -Rihan checkpoint
The momentous building at the checkpoint is in its pick. They build a new enclosed area, and inside the old fenced area where the pickup trucks are inspected the "walls" fell. Five last pickup trucks loaded with goods come out of the defined area, on their way to the market place of Barta'a.
At the vehicles' shed there are two cars under inspection, on their way to the Seam line zone. A few people return from the West Bank, while workers from Israel rush into the sleeve. Between 10 to 40 people gather at the entrance to the terminal, they are allowed in in groups of five to ten people when all of a sudden the carousel locks on the last person in the group.
Only one service window is open yet passage is swift.
Those waiting in line urge us to visit in the mornings the Taibe checkpoint, they claim that the over crowding there is difficult to endure and every day there are accidents and people get injured at the entrance, they even report of deaths over there.
16:30 When we went down to the lower car park area, we've noticed that one of the security guards had abandon his post, stopped a youngster who went down the sleeve and over the fence requested to see his papers. (Are there changes in passage regulations?)
The lower car park area is crowded with cabs awaiting passengers.
16:40 – We went back to the entrance of the terminal, at this time many workers arrive at the gate but they don't crowed at the entrance and passage is swift.
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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