Reihan, Shaked, Tue 1.1.08, Morning
05:55 – 07:30
05:55 Reihan Checkpoint
It's cold and dark. In the upper parking lot, transports are waiting for men and women passing through the terminal and coming out to go to work. They wish us a "Happy New Year."
Passage through the terminal, according to one of the people, took half an hour without extra checks in the side room.
One of the seamstresses has been waiting for more than 15 minutes for her comrade, in addition to the half hour it took to pass. She passed today "directly" while her friend was apparently held up in the inspection rooms.
Five vans are waiting in the lower parking lot, loaded with goods for the Seam Zone. The cold is forcing the drivers back into their cabs.
The waiting shed reveals the usual picture: piles of egg trays next to Walid's stand, there since the day before yesterday.
People going to the Seam Zone enter at the yellow gate and through the turnstile into the terminal without any delay. The group that arrived early in the morning is already through. Now the traffic, individuals or small groups, is swallowed quickly down the lane to the terminal.
At the southern edge of the parking lot, by the yellow iron gate, men's clothing, a shirt, jeans, socks, and a torn black bag, strewn on the ground, for of holes. Somebody has forgotten the bag here yesterday and the soldiers fired at it to make sure that it wasn't booby trapped, and left the contents strewn in every direction.
07:15 Shaked Checkpoint
Schools are closed, so the checkpoint and the road leading to it are quite deserted at this hour. On the Tura (West Bank) side ten people are waiting. The old man with his white donkey has already crossed. We saw him on his way to Umm Reihan for his daily visit to his daughter, sitting hunched over against the cold, while the donkey navigates its own way.
An older man tells us that his 25-year -ld son is ill with cancer. Till October he was treated in a hospital in Jordan. The Jordanians, so he says, have recommended that he takes the son for treatment at Hadassah (chemotherapy and/or transplant). Another man who heard the conversation, and introduced himself as a council member from Tura, said that the Palestinian Authority would finance the treatment, and the Palestinian DCO in Jenin would arrange the necessary permit. The father didn't seem to be completely convinced. We asked him to call to inform us how it was working out. Perhaps we can intervene on his behalf.
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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