Reihan, Shaked, Sun 9.5.10, Morning
6:00 Reihan CP
"There is talk about you!"
About 30 workers are waiting for their rides in the upper parking lot. We were told that the CP opened at 5:00. They also tell us that recently people whose permits are no longer valid, encounter problems in getting new permits at the Salem DCO; the older people get permits for only two monthe and they get them only after waiting for two weeks when they could not go out to work at all (in the past they would get new permits within a day). We are talking about veteran workers and about permits for work both in Israel and in the seamline zone. When one of them asked why he was refused a permit, he was told that "there is talk about you" on the authority of the General Security Service. Our impression is that today fewer workers leave through the CP than in the past. When we asked if there is more work in the territories, they told us that there is more work only in construction, but the seamstresses in the seamline zone have no alternative. Indeed, today we did not meet a single seamstress. In the compound a number of cars are being inspected and another seven are waiting in the lower parking lot. In the park that is developing industriously, a white lily is blooming and there are new herbs in flower-pots.
6.15 – People arrive at the CP in waves and go through immediately. Inside the terminal it is quiet and no people are waiting.
6.30 – Workers from the night shift are returning from Barta'a. At the vehicle CP in the direction of the West Bank a taxi loaded with packages is being inspected. The driver opens every bag and every suitcase; the inspection is quick and within 10 minutes, the taxi with its passengers goes on its way.
7.05, Shaked CP
"Today the computer man is great."
The CP is open and the 25 people that crowded to the gate have already gone through. The last two say – "The computer man is great, he lets them all through quickly." Cars going in both directions also go through quickly.
7.15 – Schoolchildren are now beginning to arrive; they go through immediately without any inspection. A Transit with 20 children arrives and after 10 minutes goes on its way to the West Bank with the children. The passage flows in both directions.
7.45 – A teacher from the West Bank who teaches in Umm-el-Reihan and goes through every day, is detained today for more than a quarter of an hour. The principal with two other teachers waited to see how the matter would end.
Only at 7.50 did they release the teacher and let him go on his way. The problem was that on the schoolday before, the computer does not note that he returned to the West Bank. For that, today he could not go to work from the West Bank. It finally was arranged after telephone calls to the DCO. He claims that on that day, when he returned home from work, the soldiers were eating lunch and did not find the time to register him. He tells us that sometimes the soldiers do not register people because thet are busy playing some computer game.
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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