Reihan, Shaked, Tue 6.9.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Reihan Checkpoint – 05:55
The women workers are ascending the sleeve towards the waiting cars and are smiling. "Today is OK – it only took us a half hour to get through." People are coming out quickly and there are two operating windows inside the terminal. A pregnant student who crosses from Barta'a to Jenin every day confides that she is concerned about passing through the X-ray machine every day. We called Sharon, the checkpoint manager, who ensured us that the machine is safe
We met a man who has a job request from a contractor in Hadera, but he has been forced to run back and forth between Salem and the employment agency in Hadera, with no results so far.
There are workers who live near the Shaked checkpoint who work in the Shahak industrial zone near the settlement of Shaked, but since that checkpoint only opens at 07:00 they have to cross at Reihan checkpoint. Since they must return via the same checkpoint at which they left, they have to travel to Reihan both times.
06:30 – Fewer people are coming out. The terminal is empty and people are crossing through quickly.
Shaked-Tura Checkpoint
Ramadan is over and the clocks in the West Bank are once again synchronized with Israel. The checkpoint opens at 07:03 and about 15 people enter from the West Bank side. The first person comes out on the seamline zone side at 07:10 and people come out every 1-2 minutes. At 07:15 children from the "lone house" arrive at the checkpoint. There are so many boulders and walls that it is difficult to see how they are checked. A van arrives with 23 children, and a woman soldier checks their bags while three armed security guards look on. The children and the van cross within 5 minutes. At 07:30 cars cross through in both directions.
We returned to Haifa with 3 small children accompanied by their mother and uncle and drove them to Rambam Hospital. The father is unable to come because is barred from entering Israel for 6 months. He did not receive a work permit because he was not yet 30 years old (he was two months short of 30). Since he has three sick children and needed NIS 200 each week to cover their medical expenses, he took his chances and went to work in Israel anyway. He was caught and faced trial. His attorney fought for him and a humane judge sentenced him to only 6 months probation during which he is barred from entering Israel (instead of two years). .
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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