Reihan, Shaked, Tue 25.10.11, Morning
Translated by Dvora K.
A'anin CP – 05:55
The CP is open and some of the people have already left for work. The tempo of passage is quick; a representative of the DCO is in the CP. One of those coming out tells us that a large number of families have already received additional permits for the olive-picking season, but still some of the families have had no response.
6:05 – At least 30 people are below in the CP and still many are arriving there; from the noise that we can hear, we conclude that there are quarrels about the queue.
6:20 – A family with three tractors leaves for the olive.
6:25 – We leave, the passage of people continues in an orderly fashion.
Reihan CP – 06:35
About forty people are waiting for rides in the upper parking lot. According to them there was terrible crowding at the X-ray machine and in the inspection pavilion during the first hour (from 5:00 on). They also complain about the attitude of one of the women who works there, she 'yells all the time.'
6:40 – Seven cars are waiting to go up to the inspection shed at the vehicle CP.
We go down the sleeve and meet many workers leaving the terminal (thirty-five go through in five minutes). They tell us that 'now everything is fine', and that in the terminal there are many people Eight cars with goods are waiting on the road that leads to the CP and a few more are waiting in the lower parking lot.
7:00 A car emerges from the inspection pavilion after an inspection that took thirty minutes. Thirteen cars that were waiting below enter the inspection pavilion. Many workers who have already gone through the terminal are sitting in the sleeve and waiting for their rides. They will have to wait another thirty minutes.
Shaked CP – 7:15
The CP is quiet. Most of the workers have already gone through. Pedestrians are going through in both directions. The car with the teachers goes through. 7:25 – A car with students of the school and the Transit with the little children arrive. After the incident on Saturday, the cars are required to park at a distance behind the concrete barrier and only then can the driver enter the area of the CP for inspection. In addition there are frequent visits of military vehicles.
The students go through quickly as the woman soldier at the side of an armed soldier checks their schoolbags .
We were told that all the residents of the seamline zone now have to renew their permits for 'free' passage of the CP. The renewal is done collectively once in two years by the Mukhtar.
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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