Reihan, Shaked, Tue 15.6.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
06:55 – Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
This morning the gates of the checkpoint opened several minutes early. Several cars are waiting to drive from the seamline zone to the West Bank. On the other side four cars, about two dozen people, and a herd of goats are waiting to cross. After about 10 minutes the first person emerges into the seamline zone.
Y., a driver, arrives with three young men who are going to work in Tura collecting eggs. When the car is checked they get out and wait but don't have to enter the inspection booth.
One of the people coming out complains about one of the soldiers who speaks to the people rudely in the inspection booth. A lieutenant arrives and we speak to him about it. There are also three representatives from the Liaison and Coordination Administration present: one senior official and two new ones.
A large taxi arrives and the passengers get out to be checked. They are proctors who are going to the high school in Barta'a to supervise the matriculation examinations in Arabic. One holds the treasured examination forms, and the other is adjusting his belt [after being checked]. 83 students will take the examination today in East Barta'a. Good luck!
07:45 The herd of goats that have been patiently waiting finally go through to the samline zone and another crosses to the "lone house."
08:00 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
Eight taxis are waiting in the upper parking lot on the seamline zone side to take workers and businesspeople to East Barta'a. Four loaded tenders and a car are waiting to be checked in the vehicle inspection facility. About 20 people are waiting to enter the terminal on the West Bank side and go in within a few minutes. Others arrive and go in immediately. The parking lot on the Palestinian side has been widened towards the security road and the yellow gate has been moved accordingly. Many of the people who own new cars prefer to park there. A corner to pray has been set up underneath the shelter with rugs and prayer rugs on the floor and enclosed with a wire. (See photo).
08:30 – We returned through Barta'a. The new entry gate is almost finished and part of the area is well-kept. The market is beginning to come to life.
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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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