Reihan, Shaked, Thu 18.2.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:05 – A'anin Checkpoint
The gates to the checkpoint are open. Most of the checks take place at the gate close to A'anin, so we cannot see a great deal. After a few minutes the first person passes through and says there are only about 20 people waiting. We saw one person who was not allowed through.
06:30 – Children arrive from the Bedouin village near the checkpoint on the side of the seamline zone. They are waiting for their ride to school in Um a Reihan.
06:40 – A soldier locks the gate. We were told that 25 people had passed through today and that one person was refused entry because he had shown a forged permit.
07:00 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
On our way to the checkpoint we took a short drive through the small village of Dahar al Malak. We saw an attractive well-kept garden next to one of the houses.
07:05 – Six male soldiers and one woman soldier arrive at the checkpoint late and open the gates. They start to get organized. Four cars and about 15 people are waiting on the West Bank side. The children from the lone house arrive via the security road; the teacher from Um a Reihan who teaches in Yaabed arrives in his car. Students arrive in cars and on foot.
07:35 – We passed by Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint on our way to the Dotan Checkpoint. We saw three tenders waiting to be checked and another five in the parking lot.
Our friend A., the driver, parks near the bridge, waiting for passengers to drive to the checkpoint. We also saw a few cars parked on both sides of the bridge next to the locked gates.
07:30 Dotan Checkpoint
We passed several unmanned pillboxes and the Bedouin village of Emricha. There is a manned checkpoint on the road to Jenin at the Mevo Dotan junction. Traffic is moving in both directions and the drivers are waiting for a soldier to signal them to pass through the checkpoint. Occasionally there is a waiting line of three or four cars. The cars pass through quickly after a quick document check or no check at all.
07:55 – One disobedient driver drove through without waiting for the soldier's signal. The man and his car had to wait for an hour while the rest of the cars were allowed to pass. After an hour the driver was detained for disciplinary measures but we don't know for how long. We attempted to ask the soldier why but he refused to answer and kept shouting to us that he couldn't hear.
08:20 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lot on the Palestinian side is filled with commercial vehicles. The few people who are arriving at this hour go directly into the terminal.
We are again amazed at the endless gardening and landscaping work being done at the checkpoint. It seems a tremendous amount of money and effort is being poured into this place. Why have they added huge concrete blocks that look like dice?
08:40 – We left the checkpoint with the usual feelings of frustration.
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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