Reihan, Shaked, Wed 20.10.10, Morning
08:15 – Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Three vehicles and two pedestrians cross over from the SeamLine zone into the West Bank. There was no one on the opposite side. One driver asked me to talk with people from the radio station "The voice of peace" who had visited Daher-el-Malec at the SeamLine zone. People in the village expressed their hardships and asked that the checkpoint would stay open for a longer time.
I spoke about school children who go through the checkpoint and of limitations of quantities of foods allowed in. For example – one brought a slaughtered sheep for a wedding and was forced to divide it to 10 portions asking 10 different individuals to walk it through the checkpoint. In that same way they bring in large quantities of Pita bread. Young soldiers have no idea of quantities of foods needed for large families and suspect that the residents lie to them. The military decides how much oil the olive trees yield. Some of the residents own olive groves on the other side of the fence but the authorities limit the amount of oil that they are allowed to bring into the SeamLine zone.
09:10 – Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
12(!) trucks waited for inspection in front of the vehicles' inspection post. At the Palestinian car park new toilets are been built. A new "Kiosk" was opened at the park, an initiative of a Palestinian from the West Bank. Drivers set unemployed, as usual at this time of day. Very few cross over, mostly are merchants who distinct themselves by their private cars. During our stay there, not even a single car filled up with passengers going to Jenin. 10:30 – We left the checkpoint.
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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