Reihan, Shaked, Tue 13.12.11, Morning
Translation: Yael S.
5:55 – Reihan checkpoint
Only a few workers wait for transportation. They report a very slow passage "because there are new workers" and indeed, it is now 06:10 and, different from other days, the many seamstresses who come out report a prolonged inspection.
One of those going through tells me that on Friday at 11:00 he was hit by an Israeli car as he was coming out of the checkpoint, and that the car drove away fast through the vehicles' gate to one of the settlements . An Israeli ambulance took him to the Dotan checkpoint and they called a Red Crescent ambulance which took him to a hospital in Jenin. Despite all the cameras around he was unable (of course) to obtain the license plate number of that car.
6:15– It is quiet by the windows at the terminal but I do hear noise on the other end which is a sign of crowding, and indeed those coming out say that passage is extremely slow.
The drinking water faucet is still out of order.
Another story I've heard – on Saturday a taxi driver was harrassed because he dropped off passengers in a place that didn't appeal to the checkpoint workers, who confiscated his I.D card temporarily. When he came back and tried driving his passengers through the vehicles' inspection post (he holds a valid permit for that) he was told that he cannot drive through. He started arguing with them, which ended in his being beaten up so badly that he'd passed out. He was taken to the hospital and is still unable to move.
The incident was reported to "BeTselem".
7:00 – Shaked checkpoint
Many gates are open and people from the West Bank are entering, in tens. We were told that there were at least 50 people there. Passage is swift.
People from the Seam Line zone also go through quickly in their cars.
School pupils go through without inspection.
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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