Reihan, Shaked, Wed 15.2.12, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
08:30 – Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint was very quiet and only a few people were crossing, including three shepherds with herds of goats and a donkey. For the first time an officer, who is the checkpoint commander, came to talk to us at the end of his shift. He was extremely polite and wanted to understand us. We parted on friendly terms.
09:40 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
We were forced to wait next to the vehicle inspection post while the person responsible was called to see if we could verify who made a recording at the checkpoint (See report from 01.02.2012). We explained that we were not recording. They also wanted to know if our guest was an Israeli citizen.
10:00– The Palestinian parking lot is already full. A few businessmen and workers arrived from Barta'a with the required permits. They passed through the terminal. They mentioned that the gate to Yaabed, where the students cross from Emricha, is still locked. Ten trucks were waiting to be checked.
We returned through East Barta'a, where we were told that trucks with agricultural produce only entered the vehicle inspection facility at 11:00, because there was a problem in the facility. People in the market in East Barta'a said that an inspection facility manned by the Border Patrol was going to be put up at the point where the green line runs between East and West Barta'a. The merchants are afraid that this will put an end to the market.
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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