Reihan, Shaked, Tue 15.3.11, Morning
Translated by Yael S.
07:10 – Shaked checkpoint
Upon our arrival, elementry school pupils cross the checkpoint as the soldier checks their begs, this time more strictly than usual.
On the side of the West Bank there is a group of 15 people waiting in front of the carousel.
At this time passage in the direction of the West Bank, the rest have to wait.
Gradually more people gather and form a line of about 25. At this time soldiers begin letting people through in a slow manner;no hurry. People got accustomed to the disregard for their time..
A young fellow who has arrived from the West Bank pours his rage on us. His reply to our Good morning is: What morning and what's so good about it? People here are angry because of the checkpoint, get heart attacks, fight with their spouses, divorce, yell at their children, this is our life due to the checkpoints. And what are you doing here? What are you here for? You look at us as if we were poor animals and you write. You do not help at all.
He leaves.
08:00 The new Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Workers arrive and walk through. Drivers appear in despair it seems as if their gathering at the parking lot is more for ventilation rather than for their livelyhood. At this time most of those crossing over are those who enter the Seam Line zone and who arrive at the checkpoint in their privat cars or by transportation. On the main highway there are six pickup trucks and two private car waiting. In the middle of the checkpoint there are four more vehicles awaiting inspection.
08:30– We left.
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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