Reihan, Shaked, Tue 15.9.09, Morning
7:00 Reihan-Barta'a
Seven minibuses are waiting for workers in the upper parking lot. The main gate is empty of cars. Six pickup trucks with goods are in waiting position in the lower parking lot. The entry gate to the terminal is empty altogether. At 7:22 two young men arrive. They enter the terminal immediately and can be seen in the exit sleeve at 7:27. At 7: 25, five pickup trucks advance to the inspection post in front of the entrance to the inspection compound; and they enter it after 16 minutes.
7:50 Shaked-Tura (local time 6:50)
Four women with a child and a baby are waiting near the inspection room.
At 7:55 they enter.
At 7:58 four children aged about eight arrive; they walk toward the concrete hut and stand at the edge. Two soldiers approach them with lists and the children take papers out of their schoolbags. They go through within four minutes. In the meantime, cars enter for inspection and leave within two minutes. A little girl and a teen-age boy are called up to the soldier. The boy takes some paper out of the girl's schoolbag and points to the nearby village, Daher-el-Malek. The children look cared for and festive and the soldiers are courteous and smiling. Male teachers in old cars are inspected quickly and they apparently pick up the women teachers on the other side of the gate. Children who arrive from the direction of the isolated house, walk straight up to the gate leading to the West Bank, but they are called back to be inspected by the soldiers.
At 8:21, ten little children arrive and stand in single file in front of the soldiers. Abbas, the DCO man who speaks Arabic, receives them. Inspection of the papers of these tiny children goes on slowly. Abbas will explain to us afterwards that today they were given numbers and from tomorrow their passage will be as fast as that of the older children. At 8:40, Abbas leaves the soldiers, saying: "Yallah, have a good day!" What a nice CP!
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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