Reihan, Shaked, Tue 13.3.12, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
16.30 – 15.00
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint 15:00
The teachers are returning from Jenin and Tura. One car was sent back from the West Bank because it was carrying four logs (evidently intended for heating). After the cargo was unloaded the car with its three passengers passed through without any problem. Two horses crossed to the West Bank for shoeing and were greeted by all the soldiers. They were allowed through after many documents were checked and phone calls were made. The owners crossed through after a lot of questions.
A driver who brought cargo through Reihan checkpoint tells us that if he becomes ill no one in his family can take his place.
15:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
People returning from Jenin are coming up the sleeve towards the seamline zone and workers are arriving from Israel.
At the vehicle checkpoint a family's car going towards the West Bank has been undergoing a thorough check for more than 10 minutes. The passengers were sent to the terminal. It appears that the driver had "some fruits and vegetables for the house." After the inspection the driver is detained while other cars pass through.
15:45 – We hear shouting from the tower. It is impossible to understand what is going on but all the checkpoint workers evidently understood and ran outside. All the gates were closed and a lot of people with children came out of the vehicle inspection facility and approached the gate. The entire area of the checkpoint is empty. Apparently some sort of security incident in the area.
16:00 – We hear shouts from the tower again, and all the workers go back to their places and the checkpoint returns to life again. Workers coming back from work run towards the terminal. Many workers crowd at the entrance, but only two windows are open.
Two women with a baby who have returned from Jenin have been waiting for a half hour at the entrance to the sleeve for their car to be checked At 16:20 8 cars emerge from the inspection facility after more than an hour's wait, and the two women and the baby can finally go home
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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