Reihan, Shaked, Wed 26.10.11, Morning
Translation: Yael s.
07:45 – 08:45 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Soldiers' version of the shooting event on Saturday Oct.22nd.
There was light traffic at the checkpoint. Soldiers came up to me and told me about the event on Saturday. According to them about 100 people from Daher-el-Malec wanted to cross over to Tura as a group and not through the inspection cabin. They said that they had received a permit for that, but the soldiers on site were not informed of that and they insisted that they go through the inspection cabin.
Another group of about 100 people arrived from Tura and they began shouting, cursing and rioting , they pressured against the gate that broke open. The soldiers felt threatened and were hurt by the Palestinians' behavior. According to them they make an effort to create a pleasant atmosphere on site and behave courteously. They were confronted by "not very nice Palestinians". No shooting was mentioned.
08:55 – 10:15 Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Two cars waited in front of the vehicle inspection post . They were followed by the medical van. All went through within fifteen minutes.
When I arrived; six trucks were waiting for inspection, they've entered the pre-inspection procedure only at 9:45, which means only 50 minutes later.
A few cars from the Seam Line zone crossed over to the West Bank . The vehicles and the passengers went through a quick inspection at the vehicle inspection post.Merchants and others who work at Barta'a crossed over as usual, no lines were formed. The Palestinian car park is full.
A huge garbage trucks crossed over into the West Bank. What for?
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
See all reports for this place-
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).
-
Tura-Shaked
See all reports for this place-
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
-