Reihan, Shaked, Sun 8.4.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
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Shaked-Tura checkpoint: The banker and a student on their way to inspection before continuing to Jenin.
Pupils are on their way to school in Tura, the village adjacent to the checkpoint.
06:20 Reihan/Barta’a checkpoint
Dozens of laborers wait for rides on both sides of the road. S.A., our acquaintance, arrives from the terminal with a small group, tells us that today people are going through more quickly than usual, in only a few minutes. Six loaded pickup trucks wait on the road beyond the gate to enter inspection. Cars are on their way there. By 06:30, all the laborers have been picked up. The security company personnel conduct a very loud conversation among themselves from their posts, including unrepeatable references to one of their mothers.
07:00 Shaked/Tura checkpoint
The gate opens exactly at seven. The concrete barriers that had separated the vehicles from the pedestrians have been removed. The children continue to bypass the checkpoint on the dirt path, the younger ones without being inspected, those aged 12 or 13 are now directed to the inspection room. Meanwhile, a large truck arrives loaded with a generator and power station equipment. The laborers wait impatiently at the revolving gates until all the teachers and students coming from both directions have entered the inspection room. The checkpoint empties by 07:35. At 07:45 the generator begins to operate loudly. A man and a child are picked up by a volunteer from “Ba’Derech Le’Hachlamah.” I also return to the Barta’a checkpoint to pick up three people going to Rambam hospital, but by 08:00 it turns out they’re not coming.
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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