Reihan, Shaked, Wed 13.5.09, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
08:00 Shaked-Tura CP
When we got to the CP, Y.'s Transit was there near the gate. It turned out that there had been an argument before that. Y. arrived at about 07:30 with pupils who wanted to go through to Ya'abed. A tracker's jeep arrived and the tracker told Y. that he was parked too close to the CP gate and that he had to remain in the shed. Y. answered that he could remain in the place he was parked and wait there to go through. The tracker claimed that Y. was preventing him from driving. Y. proposed to call the police and a policeman arrived from Shahak.
The policeman said that Y. is in order, but did not report this to the DCO or to the brigade. All of this took place before we got there.
We phoned the DCO, where they knew that Y. and his Transit were parked near the gate, but they had not received any report from the policeman and so they gave no instructions to allow Y. to go through from the seamline zone to the West Bank. In the meantime, Y. called for another taxi to come and drive the pupils to Ya'abed.Until 09:00, the policeman still had not notified the DCO. Y. called the police and only then did the policeman submit his report to the DCO. At 09:20 they allowed Y. to go through. Y. had wasted all this time to prove that he was right.At 09:45, Y. returned safely from the West Bank to the seamline zone.
10:00 Reihan-Barta'a CP
The drivers of the pickup trucks with vegetables are pleased with the new inspection arrangement. They say it is quicker. There is very little traffic of vehicles or pedestrians. The time for going through the terminal is 10 to 15 minutes. Many drivers are waiting for passengers who do not show up.One man waited in the Palestinian parking lot for money that somebody was supposed to transfer to him. When I requested it, the person responsible for the CP agreed to coordinate the transfer of the money.A man 28 years of age, the father of two children, who has a permit to work in Barta'a in the seamline zone, tells us that he asked for a permit to go to a wedding in Bak'a el Gharbiya in Israel. But he was refused because he is too young.An additional armored post for a guard has been built above the bus stop.
11:00 We leave the CP.
Two gigantic bulldozers enter the West Bank.
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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