Reihan, Shaked, Wed 27.1.10, Morning
07:10 – 08;30 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
12 people and two cars waited on the other side of the fence to cross over to the Seamline zone.
Inspection is extremely slow despite the few people going through. I've met at the checkpoint a young man, a resident of Daher-el-Malec in the SeamLine zone who got a job in the carpets factory at the Sha"hak industrial zone, also at located in the SeamLine zone. This person is unable to work because he is denied by the police and at the carpets plant they are not willing to employ him unless the police denial is lifted. all this is despite the fact that he needs not to cross any checkpoint on his way to work.
The police refusal is a result of an occurance at the checkpoint. According to the young man, he was to bring over, with the DCO permission, 2 empty containers of cooking gas. for home use, which he was supposed to fill up at Ya'abed. There is no delivery of gas to Daher-el-Malec. He was detained at the checkpoint for an hour and a half and when he ran out of time, he made a U-turn and hurry home. Based on that violation he was arrested, broght to trial and was fined with 1,500 Nis and for five years of police (?) denial. That is the reason why he can not go to work located 5 minutes away from his home.
08:40 -09:50 Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint.
A checkpoint routine. Merchants from Barta'a had arrived and gone through into the SeamLine zone.
Only a few crtossed over to the West Bank.
Trucks went into inspection prior to my arrival and has'nt come out before I left.
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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