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Reihan, Shaked, Tue 8.1.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Tami S., Ruti T. (reporting)
Jan-08-2008
| Morning

07:15 – 08:45

07:15 Reihan-Bartaa Checkpoint

Light traffic in the sleeve. Two men emerge from the terminal – one of them, the younger, had been checked in the inner room. We discern something that seems to be a regular procedure: a woman soldier escorted by an armed civilian at the entry to, and exit from, one of the rooms.
At 07:55, at the entrance to the terminal from the lower parking lot, a woman with five children enters. They come out after eight minutes. A soldier (conscript) by the gate: "I think it is forbidden to photograph here" – but he doesn’t insist. Loaded pickup trucks wait to be checked, but no sign of crowding. Drivers waiting for passengers in the upper lot blame the paucity of passengers on the rain that fell during the night. Now it is clear, and not especially cold.

08:30 Shaked (Tura) Checkpoint

The gates are open. Many more soldiers than usual by the inner gate, but no traffic of people crossing. The schoolchildren are on holiday. In the concrete structure by the gate, a man and a child are waiting for a relative expected to arrive from Shfaram.
Here the sparse traffic is explained away by Bush’s visit…

  • 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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