Reihan, Shaked, Tue 28.6.11, Morning
6:00 Reihan checkpoint
The CP was opened at 5:00 am but the pace of workers coming out of inspection is slow. Workers who arrive at the checkpoint enter immediately but prior to entering the inspection post there is a long line. According to them :"Only when Sharon or another person in charge are on site all goes smoothly, when they're absent, all is slow".
Activity is routine. At the vehicles inspection area pickup trucks and cabs are inspected. On the way out of the sleeve there are many taxis and vans waiting to pick up workers and drive them to their various places of employment. A local usher put things in order.
6:40– There is still crowding at the entrance to the terminal. Workers from the rug factory came running out of the terminal straight to the car waiting for them out side.
6:50– Because we had transferred bottles of oil, we went through the closed inspection area – the bottles were screened.
Inside the inspection cabins, on the inspecting equipment there is inscription both in Hebrew and Arabic.
7:05 – Shaked checkpoint
About 20 people stand by the turnstile, they cross the checkpoint in a pace of every 2 minutes. Pedestrians cross over on both directions. 5 cars went into the Seam Line zone and one to the West Bank. Passage time is 5-8 minutes.
A sick child and his mother changed inside the inspection area from the car that had drove them over to a car of a volunteer from the non-profit organization "The way to healing" of Dr.Yuval Roth, who had taken them to a hospital.
7:25A cab with observers for the matriculation examinations arrives from the West Bank. The observers who hold the exams in their hands cross over without inspection, just by a list. The cab is inspected for 5 minutes and they proceed.
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)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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