Reihan, Shaked, Wed 23.6.10, Morning
07:00 Shaked – Tura Checkpoint
The checkpoint opened at 07:05. 17 people, two herds of goats, three cars and two wagons pulled by donkeys are waiting on the eastern side. Suddenly there is disorder. A group of teachers is attempting to cross without being checked. This morning there is a matriculation exam in mathematics and they need to be there in time. The soldiers did not agree that they cross without being checked. After 45 minutes the group of teachers and their car finally cross. 15 minutes later another group of teachers crosses through. The rest of the teachers did not cross until 08:10. One of the teachers was holding the examination booklets. A ten-year-old boy is stuck on the eastern side of the checkpoint. He is listed in his mother's ID card but arrived with his father. The father has brought the mother's ID card, but his permit only allows him to cross at Reihan! The father crosses but the boy is left on the eastern side of the fence.
Y., the driver, has been blacklisted by the General Security Services and is constantly harassed. He is forced to wait for 45 minutes while other cars and taxis are allowed to drive through. After a half hour I call the Liaison and Coordination Administration and speak to an officer. We have known Y.for years. He drives children from to school from the seamline zone to school in Tura in the West Bank. He crosses the checkpoint six or seven times each day. IF he has to wait he will not be able to earn a living. All of a sudden he has been accused of something that is making his life miserable. Y. finally crossed at 08:45.
09:00 Reihan-Barta'a Checkpoint
The parking lot was filled with cars from businessmen from Barta'a. No trucks were waiting. I left at 09:45 and the checkpoint was quiet.
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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