Reihan, Shaked, Wed 22.7.09, Morning
07:40–8:40 Shaked/Tura checkpoint
When we arrived there were no people waiting. We were told that 'All went smoothly".
Three pickup trucks loaded with vegetables are waiting. Five minutes into our arrival they are called in for inspection.
There is some pressure at the entrance to the terminal for people coming from the West Bank side and going into the Seam Line zone. A few go the opposite way quickly into the West Bank.
One person, a business owner at East Barta'a ,turns to us. He lives at the Tul Karen vicinity and his passage permit had expired three days ago. He, as usual, turned to the DCO in Tul-Karem where he was directed to the Salem DCO. He was told that regulations were changed and now he needs to go to Salem according to his place of work. At the Salem DCO no one had heard of the new regulations and once again he was directed to the Tul-Karem DCO. This individual arrived at the checkpoint but of course he was denied passage. We called the person in charge of the Tul – Karem DCO, who agreed that the regulations indeed were changed, but at the Salem DCO they have yet to hear about that.
According to him, from now on dealing with permits would be based on place of work rather than place of living.
The head of the Tul-Karem DCO said that he has already received a few complaints in that regard which he plan to deal with systematically.
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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