Reihan, Shaked, Wed 11.4.12, Morning
Translating Dvora K.
All kind of work is being done around the CP. This morning a group of officers were there. The computer was down and it was inconvenient to inspect those going through. People who have always gone through suddenly became 'excluded by order of the General Security Service'. There was an atmosphere of great tension. One man went through accompanied by three officers and a police commander. They decided that he was not really going to do agricultural work, as his permit specified, but was going to work in construction, as the tools he was carriying indicated. The man said that he was going to his olive grove and that the tools were always with him, in his bag. The argument went on in the waiting shed on the side of the seamline zone. We heard one of the officers say that one always 'has to look at their hands to see if they really do any work.'
An older woman arrived, in tears . She has a permit to go through to the seamline zone to visit two of her married children who live in Umm Reihan, a Palestinian village in the seamline zone. She wanted to bring her children and their family some food that she has cooked the night before. The soldiers at the CP decided that this was a 'commercial quantity' and did not allow her to transport the pots of food. The woman went home with the pots and came back to the CP crying and empty-handed. In the meantime Wahal from the DCO arrived. We told him about the woman and he told her to go to her home on the West Bank, to return with the food and he would let her to go through. The woman was exhausted and did not have the strength to return home again in order to come back to the CP for the third time. Moreover, she was not certain that Wahal would indeed wait there for her.
One of the soldiers told us that we know nothing about all the smuggling that goes on in the CPs, and that is why they have to be very cautious.
10:00 Reihan-Barta'a CP
We stayed there for about an hour and there was no extraordinary event. We returned via East Barta'a. A man told us that his wife is pregnant and that she travels to the university in Jenin every day. He is worried because of the x-ray inspections that she has to undergo twice a day. Another man, older and a father of several children, told us that he is not allowed to enter Israel. He feels choked. According to him none in his immediate family or among his relatives was ever involved in any kind of hostile activity, but 'they' are not willing to tell him why he is forbidden access.
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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