Reihan, Shaked, Tue 17.2.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
Shaked CP
A man in a car tells us that a few days ago, he arrived at the CP with a sick child when the CP was closed. He phoned the DCO to ask them to open it so that he could get to the clinic, and they refused, saying there was nothing they could do about it (another well-known local problem). The residents of the seamline zone depend on the medical services that are west of the CP.
07:30 – a delay in the pavilion. The pupils have to wait for a while before they are allowed to enter the pavilion and they are angry at the delay on the way to school.
07:43 – An older man with a donkey, who always goes through the CP, has been standing and waiting on the other side ever since we arrived. The soldiers now approach him for the second time and talk to him. A man who gets out of a car explains to us that there is now a veto on taking animals through because of the spread of foot and mouth disease. Now we understand why the goat herd that is usually here is absent as well.
Reihan CP
In the lower Palestinian parking lot the drivers report that today the CP opened at five thirty instead of at five and people had to wait. They also report that the Ameriha CP on the road to Jenin opened on time, at 05:00.
08:20 – One pickup truck with goods is waiting. Apparently all the others went through earlier.
One of the taxi drivers complains that there is a settler who "makes a lot of trouble" on the road – intentionally bars their passage, pounds his car … We suggested that he file a complaint in the police station with details of the car, and he said that in court they wouldn't listen to him, an Arab, when the other side is a Jewish settler.
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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