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Reihan, Shaked, Tue 20.11.07, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: Hitches at checkpoints Youngsters and students
Observers: Chana H, Yocheved G
Nov-20-2007
| Morning

06:00 – 08:40

06:00 Reihan Checkpoint

Rihan opened at 05:30. Again the seamstresses complain that all were put into an inspection room (as were a few men). Transit takes roughly half an hour, and in winter there is a serious problem of roofing by the gate and along the walkway. People come early in order to get a place in line, are crowded by the gate – it is raining and cold…

07:00 Shaked Checkpoint

Opened on time. On the other side of the checkpoint some 15 people are waiting. From the Seam Zone, the schoolchildren cross quickly.
07:15 – the checking room opens and people begin to pass from the West Bank to the Seam Zone. Again the problem of the opening hour. There are teachers who have to get from Tura (in the West Bank) to Um Rihan (in the Seam Zone), and don’t get to school on time. There is also a problem for students returning after the weekend to Nablus, who lose morning lessons because the checkpoint only opens at 07:00. (A new red building –toilets – has opened at the checkpoint).

07:30 Reihan Checkpoint

The first three vehicles are still at the checkpoint, and they only exit at 08:00.
Seven pick ups with eggs and other produce are waiting because only private cars are passing now. Only at 08:30 are vegetables, eggs brought in for inspection.
Repeated complaints about Dotan Checkpoint. Today, Palestinians who did not have a permit for Rihan were delayed, even if they did not want to pass that checkpoint. Why is there no free traffic within the territory, they ask? It is their home, isn’t it?
In the Palestinian parking ten more vehicles are added with produce, and eight private cars waiting for "ordinary" transit.
08:40 – when the second round of vehicles entered for inspection, we left. Rain… rain… rain…

  • 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).

  • 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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