Reihan, Shaked, Tue 20.9.11, Morning
Translation: yael s.
06:10 Riehan checkpoint
Traffic streams smoothly, people in a smiley mood and the seamstresses greets us with "Boker Tov" and we reply with "Sabach-el-cheir". All of a sudden the occupations seems to have become somewhat more comfortable. Does it have to do with Abu Mazen's appearance at the U.N ? we wonder.
A Palestinian, land owner from A'aneen comes out of the Reihan checkpoint because today the checkpoint at A'aneen is closed. He has to make the entire de-tour. After all the land needs to be looked after daily.
06:45 – Shaked checkpoint
The gate opens at 07:00 but the inspection post not yet. People are angry, they need to get to work. Here the pace is slow. Teachers wait at the entrance to get to school on time. The soldier's excuse is, as usual, "the computer". As if they can't come a bit earlier and open up as promised, at 07:00.
20 children pour out of a small pickup truck and each of their bags is inspected, they move to the other side of the fence where they wait for yet another truck to take them to school. Day after day, the very same procedure for such a basic matter as getting to school.
A young fellow who looks after his land on the Israeli side of the Seam Line and is denied passage home (only his elderly parents hold such a permit), he waits for breakfast that his mother sends with those with passage permits. He lives in a shack on the family's land.
Another prank of the occupation authorities.
By the inspection cabin 8 more are still waiting. What's the rush…..
8:00– We left.
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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