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Reihan, Shaked, Tue 23.9.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Tags: DCO (District Coordination Offices) Health Problems Punishment X-ray machine
Observers: Ruthie T. and Hanna H. (reporting )
Sep-23-2008
| Morning

Translation: Devorah K.

Reihan CP – 06:00
The CP opened at 05:00; the x-ray machine is working and many workers have already gone through and are waiting for their rides. But they tell us about a new problem: after the holidays, beginning October 5, it will not be possible to go through the Reihan CP to Israel even if they have a permit to do so ("red permit"). People who live in Ya'abe and work in Hadera (and the employer drives them from the CP and back there) will have to go through Taibeh. A waste of time and money and perhaps also the loss of a job. The tempo of leaving is quick and those going through report to us that the time of passage is 30 minutes. At 06:30 the pressure eases and from now on only one post is in operation at the exit from the terminal.
06:45 – In the lower parking lot (the Palestinian) five pickup trucks with goods are waiting. There are no passenger cars. The drivers in the parking lot are bored and ask us about clothing. 
07:00 – The pickup trucks enter the inspection compound. The gate of the CP closes for ten minutes in order to enable what appears to be a shift change and a security check.

Shaked CP – 07:25
The gate is already open but only a few have gone through. About 30 people crowd near the turnstile; they wish to go through to the seamline zone. In the inspection room, there is only one soldier doing the inspection.

People tell us that residents who submitted requests for a renewal of their agricultural permits over a month ago (on August 5) have still not received them and they are of course very worried because soon the olive-picking season will begin. At 08:00 all the people have already gone through to the seamline zone. Passenger cars and a tractor are also going through to the seamline zone. The inspection of each vehicle takes 1 – 2 minutes. Pupils begin to go through to school at 07:45. They go through immediately without inspection. One man tells us that at the end of July, they've taken his son's permit as punishment for not having returned on the same day. Since then he has turned to the DCO; at the DCO they gave him a telephone number where he could get information; but every time he called in an attempt to resolve the problem, either they did not answer or they were not near the computer, and so on, and so on. We tried to help him but we, too, could not get to the person responsible for this matter.

Reihan CP – 08:05
Two passenger cars on their way to the seamline zone are being inspected at the CP for twenty minutes. Two taxis with passengers go through to the West Bank; inspection time is ten minutes. The first pickup trucks with goods leave for Barta'a at 08:20. Two more pickup trucks are waiting and enter for inspection. The time of passage for pedestrians in the direction of the seamline zone is 25 minutes.

  • 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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