Reihan, Shaked, Wed 19.11.08, Morning
Translation: Devorah K.
Shaked (Tura) CP:
After that a young Palestinian who went through in the opposite direction (from Tura to the seamline zone) talked to us and complained that he is not allowed to transport containers full of oil – all together three containers for household use for his family. The soldiers claimed that he must show a permit for the oil and he did not have one. We thought — what will happen when the man who talked to us before will want to return home with his oil and he, too, will have to have a special permit for that. At the end of the soldiers' shift, at 10:00 and before the gate closed we asked a soldier in the CP why there is a need for a special permit to transport olives and oil if they are in small quantities for household use only and this is the olive-picking season. We were told that it is already the end of the olive-picking season and at any rate we should ask the DCO in order to find out about this topic (as about every topic).
Reihan CP:
A few people told us that it took them a quarter of an hour from the minute they entered and until they left. But there were two who reported angrily about an inspection of almost an hour and a half. They said that they came from Tul-Karem and maybe there is some connection with that!? At any rate those coming from Barta'a reported that the passage was quick and without any particular delay. In the lower parking lot we noticed three trucks loaded with goods and two Transits. They did not go through to be inspected until we left the CP. The procedures in the inspection post of the vehicle CP seemed to take a long time, considering that the traffic was very thin.
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)
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