Reihan, Shaked, Wed 20.5.09, Morning
Hedva H. came to the checkpoint later because she had to drive Abed, an 8-year-old cancer patient, from Yaabed to Reihan Checkpoint after he had to undergo another chemotherapy treatment.
09:40 Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
Children are already returning to their homes in the seamline zone from school in the West Bank. It is lucky that they managed to come back before the checkpoint is closed at 10:00. It will open again at 12:00.
10:10 Reihan Barta’a Checkpoint
Three groups of four tenders each loaded with merchandise were checked by 12:00. People went through the terminal in 5-10 minutes.
A resident of Kapin told us that he has an agricultural permit for the Kapin Checkpoint (Gate 408). The day before yesterday, Monday, he went to his olive grove with a tool to hoe the dry weeds that are liable to cause fires. The man was late returning through the Kapin Checkpoint. He hid his hoe in the olive grove and walked and hitchhiked to the terminal at Reihan-Barta’a. The man said that he was late for the closing hour at the Kapin Checkpoint and they let him go through to the West Bank, but confiscated his agricultural permit and told him he must go and get it back at the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Salem.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the man came to the Liaison and Coordination Administration, where he was told that his permit had not arrived there and that he should go retrieve it at the checkpoint.
I called the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Salem and was told that the permit would not be returned immediately but only after a hearing that would be conducted at the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Tul Karem to which the village of Kapin belongs.
I talked with A., a representative of the Liaison and Coordination Administration at the checkpoint, and explained to him that the man was not in Israel and did not remain in the seamline zone overnight. HE was only late and was trying to get back. His entire life depends upon his land. A said that he would try to help and that the man should come to see him at the checkpoint on Thursday at 16:00. On Thursday evening I called the man from Kapin, who said his agricultural permit had been returned.
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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