Reihan, Shaked, Tue 10.3.09, Morning
Translation: Y.B.S
6:20 – Rihan The checkpoint opens as usual. The Palestinian car park is relatively empty, people who arrive on site, go through immediately. Five cars wait to cross over to the Seam Line zone. A man approaches us and tells us that he owns land by East Barta'a (on the Palestinian side) and he is denied renewal of his agriculture passage permit, they are willing to renew the permit only for his 60 years old mother, who is unable to work. Neta takes his personal details but reminds him, that now it is much more difficult to obtain an agriculture permit.
6:50 There are already 10 pickup trucks with goods on the West bank side (inspection would begin at 7) as well as three cars.
At the end of the sleeve there are workers waiting for transportation to work. We timed passage:15-20 minutes.At the vehicles' checkpoint a new sign was added , stating that it is forbidden to photograph. We walk down inside the sleeve to the terminal, a few women who were denied passage, call us. We yell back and ask the clerks inside the windows (two are manned for a puzzling few minutes), as it turns out the Biometer (which identifies a person's hand) does not recognize them and they were told to go to the DCO to settle the matter.Neta calls the DCO to inquire how come women from the seamstress group who go through daily are delayed. He says that there are things we are not aware of.
At the same time when Netta is on the phone with the DCO I talk to a fellow who wait for his friend. He shows me that at the Salem DCO a mistake was made when his passage permit was printed without a date which causes him to go through an expended inquiry every morning.As far as I am concerned, the headline of today's visit should be:"The wonders of the occupation's technology"
7:30 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Two vehicles wait for passage into the West Bank. The second in line reports that today's soldiers were ok in inspecting the cars and they let cars go through fast.
On the West Bank side about 7 people wait to get into the inspection booth. A Hammar vehicles is parked in the center with its engine on – as usual…..
There are still restrictions for transferring animals due to the mouth and hoof disease, but a heard that has a veterinarian permit is allowed through.
We watched the usual two heards go through today.
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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