Reihan, Shaked, Tue 25.8.09, Afternoon
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Salem Checkpoint Salem Checkpoint (Gate 100) is open to Israeli Arabs during the month of Ramadan. People are allowed to cross in both direction and in busses only. The checkpoint is open from 09:00-11:00 and from 15:00-20:00. The checkpoint is closed on Saturdays.
Salem checkpoint is a gate in the separation fence next to the area of the Salem army base and includes the Liaison and Coordination Administration and military court. The checkpoint has been closed for five years except during several days during the olive harvest during which residents of the village of Zbuba who are separated from their small olive grove by the fence, who are allowed to pass through to enter their fields. There is an entry gate to the Liaison and Coordination Administration and the military court for use by Palestinians next to the checkpoint.
When we arrived a border patrol jeep and a large white army vehicle were parked there. We saw no one except for the friendly border patrolman and a woman soldier from the military police. The border patrolman told us that on Sunday buses had passed through carrying Israeli Arabs. On Monday and Tuesday morning no one came and the checkpoint was empty as it is now.15:45 Shaked Tura Checkpoint The checkpoint is empty and quiet. Three pedestrians and a red car pass through from the seamline zone to the West Bank.
16:00 Reihan-Barta’a
The Palestinian parking lot is completely filled with cars. IT is hot, and the drivers are hungry and fed up and begin shouting and hitting for a reason that is not clear to us. Two of the security guards go up to the fence and try to calm the commotion. One of them puts two fingers to his lips and whistles. The quarrel ends for a moment and begins again after a few minutes.
During the fight the exit turnstile to the parking lot is closed and about 20 people have to wait. After several minutes the commotion dies down and the turnstile opens again.
16:30 Workers begin to arrive in groups and enter the sleeve and entrance to the terminal on the seamline zone side. There is no pressure and no line builds up despite the fact that there is only one window open. Several times we heard the inspector call “Who’s upstairs?” and invite the security guard for an additional check. We could not see what this additional inspection was or how long it took.
Only a young couple with a small child passed through from the West Bank to the seamline zone.
17:10 – Three cars are waiting to drive through to the seamline zone and one to the West Bank. We left the checkpoint.
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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