Reihan, Shaked, Wed 29.9.10, Morning
Eight soldiers are aiming their weapons at the yellow gate on the side of the seamline zone.
Standing there are three high school students. One of the girls is having an attack of asthma and anxiety. She keeps falling and getting up over and over again. I appeal to the soldiers. One of them refuses to talk to me. The second one does agree but his friend tells him not to talk to us. One of the Palestinians says that he tried to explain the girls' condition to the soldiers and to translate for them the medical permit that she has in her hand. The document says that she suffers from breathing difficulties, and has recently been released from the hospital in Nablus. It says that she is not allowed to spend time in a closed air-conditioned place. The girl asked not to have to enter the inspection pavilion but the soldiers did not agree to her request. It is important to mention that until recently students of schools were not required to enter the pavilion. At any rate, her friends accompanied her. All of this was going on when they were on their way to school. I phoned the DCO and the woman soldier who answered said that they know what is happening and are taking care of the matter. I said that we will report to people outside the country. Within a quarter of an hour they let the student go through.
We met the driver, Y., who is 'prevented [from passage] for reasons of security', but recently he 'went through' the CP all right. He also has henhouses: one in Tura on the West Bank and the second in Umm Reihan in the seamline zone. That is where he lives. He manages both of them. According to him, the DCO notified him that during the next month, there will be difficulties for him again at the CP. A strange story. The delay at the CP will harm his livelihood as a driver as well as his income from the henhouses on both sides of the fence.
09:10 Reihan-Barta'a CP
A resident of El Judeida on the West Bank who owns a store in East Barta'a arrived with his two workers, residents of Snur on the West Bank. Today, they were not allowed to go through to the seamline zone even though they were allowed through before, both during Succoth and on the days of closure. A taxi driver has a small Palestinian flag on the windshield at the front of the car. He told us that he was detained in the internal CP and the soldier told him to take off the flag. The driver told the soldier that he doesn't tell the soldier to do away with the Israeli flag. After that, he says, they detained him for two and a half hours.
10:15 We left the CP and on our way to Barta'a we met a man who told us about the troubles that beset Palestinians. The man has been married for more than twenty years to a woman from Messer, who has an Israeli ID. The man has a Palestinian ID and a permit saying that he is in a naturalization procedure and that he should not be banished from Israel. The man and his wife and their children live in the Israeli village of West Barta'a. His wife's sister, who is also an Israeli from Messer, and her children, live together with them. The sister is married to a Palestinian from Yaabed (West Bank) who for five years has not been able to get a permit to enter Israel. The children are listed on her ID and they have Israeli ID numbers. They are above the age of sixteen and asked to receive Israeli ID cards at the Ministry of the Interior in Hadera. The Ministry of the Interior refused to give them ID cards, even though they have Israeli numbers, get a children's allowance from the government, and have medical insurance, and so on. They do not have a Palestinian ID card either. Without an ID card they have no possibility of visiting their father, who, as noted, cannot visit them either.
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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