Reihan, Shaked, Tue 13.7.10, Morning
07:30 – Shaked checkpoint
We were late this morning and the gate too opened late, this according to people crossing over, due to the malfunction of the generator. The number of people waiting by the carousel, on its West Bank side were as usual and except for the lateness is starting passage, no other problems were observed.
A number of soldiers stand and talk in the area of the checkpoint, if we are not mistaken there were also representatives from the DCO. The herd pastures leisurely outside the checkpoint – goats are not inspected with the Magnpmeter and the shepherded apparently was trustworthy.
08:0- Rihan checkpoint
Most of those working in Barta'a who arrive by cabs have already crossed over. Many cabs were still waiting at the upper car park area. Part of the cars owners have gone through into Barta'a,. We could tell by the brand new cars parked at the lower car park area.A few idle drivers dozed off on the mattresses at the praying corner in the shed. They asked about the wedding held yesterday at E. in Zbeida that some of our friend were invited and attended.For the first time in a long while we saw a pile of egg crates in the shed, one of the drivers explained the pause in selling eggs by less demand for eggs in Barta'a.At the first vehicles' inspection post waited a truck and three pickup trucks with agriculture produce, they waited to enter the inspection area.
We didn't continue to the Dotan checkpoint which is lately manned by soldiers and we hurried to Jalama to pick up a sick person to the Ramb"am hospital. This time it was an elderly person.
We took his son a few years ago for radiation therapy. Today the son is healthy and we were happy to hear that he had completed two years of studies at the American university in Jenin.
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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