Reihan, Shaked, Tue 14.2.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
Reihan checkpoint – 6:00
People exit slowly through the fenced corridor leading up from the terminal, but there’s no congestion outside.
6:10 The seamstresses now leaving the terminal tell us they were delayed inside for an hour. At 6:15 the rate at which people exit increases slightly, but we’re told there are very many people inside and there’s a bottleneck at the scanner.
6:25 The rate at which people exiting slows again. People come running out, dressing as they do, yelling to us, “Yesterday we went home [didn’t go to work] because the contractor didn’t wait for us.”
We left at 6:45. Some of the laborers we normally run into at this hour hadn’t come through yet.
Shaked checkpoint – 7:00
Only now do the soldiers arrive and open the gates.
7:05 The waiting laborers and children begin entering the checkpoint. It turns out that since Thursday the revolving gate serving those coming from the West Bank is out of order. About 50 people come from the West Bank to the checkpoint area, they’re sent back, and admitted again only at 7:10 and directed in groups to the only entrance to the inspection room (on the seam zone side).
7:15 The teachers coming from the West Bank bypass the confusion and exit immediately to the seam zone. They tell us that on Thursday they were detained at the checkpoint until 7:55 because of the gate’s malfunction.
7:20 People and cars are now crossing at a good rate in both directions. The school children arrive and cross quickly to Tura, three soldiers inspecting their schoolbags.
Reihan checkpoint – 7:35
Many laborers wait at the entrance to the fenced corridor for the cars being inspected in the closed area. Seven pickup trucks carrying merchandise released from the inspection area drive to Barta’a. We returned to bring Ali to the hospital for treatment.
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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