Reihan, Shaked, Tue 16.6.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
06:20 Reihan-Barta'a CP
At the side of the road near the upper parking lot, about twenty men and ten women are waiting for rides to their places of work in the seamline zone. Our friend, B., who works in a rug factory in the Shahak industrial zone, tells us that during the past three weeks passage through the terminal has slowed down somewhat, because everybody goes through the new machine (SEP – System for Examining People). He says that on the average it takes 15 to 20 minutes to go through, but he and his friend note that thanks to the machine people do not go through another inspection in the rooms.
06:30. There are only a few cars in the lower parking lot: six loaded pickup trucks are waiting for inspection. The security person in the hut speaks in an unpleasant tone to a man who does not succeed in moving the turnstile. After a few minutes, the tone changes and she speaks courteously to those entering the terminal.
07:05 Shaked-Tura CP
People and two herds of goats are waiting to enter the seamline zone. Traffic in both directions is very thin.
07:50 All those waiting have gone through.
08:00 Back to the Reihan-Barta'a CP
Those who work in shops in East Barta'a (residents of the West Bank who work there) arrive and are swallowed up in the terminal. The boy, Ali, who has been invited for a check-up at Rambam Hospital, arrives with his mother.
08:15. We left the CP.
Ali and his mother have gone through the terminal and are waiting at the top of the sleeve for us to take them to Rambam Hospital.
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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