Reihan, Shaked, Wed 16.3.11, Morning
Translated: Yael S.
Children's protest at Shaked-Tura checkpoint
07:45
Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Along the road before the checkpoint tens of children with two adults walked back and forth, all of them residents of the Seam Line zone. The children attend educational institutions at Tura, the near-by village, which is close to to Palestinian checkpoint on the Palestinian side. One of the adults told us that children are no longer allowed to cross over to their kidergartens and schools with the soldiers inspection and are now requested to go through the inspection cabin.
We were told that following the deadly terrorist attack at Itamar and the discovery of a suspecious object at this very checkpoint, children yestreday were requested to undergo inspection inside the cabin. Children lack the strength to open the heavy steel door, and in addition their schoolbags have metal buckles, and their clothes sometimes have metal decorations as well, which might trigger the alarm in the inspection booth. They'd be forced to undress and empty their bags and
inspection might take forever, therefore the adults have decided against that move. One of the adults called the DCo asking that the children would continue to cross over as usual. THe DCO had refused. We too called and our request has been denied. Our attempt to explain that the children were neither involved in the terror attack at Itamar nor did they have any connection to the suspicious object, fell on a deaf ear.
Both the DCO and the Palestinians had fortified themselves with their convictions.
The bottom line – The children did not cross over to Tura and wandered on the main highway by the checkpoint.
10:00– Soldiers lock the gate for their usual break. The children remained on site.
10:15 We leave. The children by the checkpoint. Tomorrow residents plan to continue the children's protest.
We'll report.
10:30 – Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint
New signs at the checkpoint vicinity. Six trucks had entered the inspection area. Relatively a large number of people came out of East Barta'a in the direction of the West Bank.
One person had brought a cardboard full of eggs without an early coordination and was forced to take it back.
1:30– We left. There were no unusual problems
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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