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Reihan, Shaked, Wed 3.12.08, Morning

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint Tura-Shaked
Observers: Hedva H., Nava R. (reporting)
Dec-03-2008
| Morning
Translation: Yael Bassis-Student
09:10 – 10:10 Tura-Shaked checkpoint
Two cars awaiting passage into the West Bank, One of them will not go through because its plate number is not listed in the passage permit.
The other one as well as all other vehicles went through without any problems.
About 20 people went through from the Seam Line zone into the West Bank and to the opposite direction, without delays, among them were school children with their teacher and other students.
The checkpoint was very busy at this time of day.
10:10 – 11:20 – Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Only a few go at this time into the West Bank.One person told me that thing inside the terminal are quite out of order.
 We called the DCO since  there was no one to talk to on site. At the DCO they claimed that every thing is under control and they know nothing of any problems there.
A few minutes later, some pedestrian who came out of the terminal said that things are back to normal.
At the Palestinian car park area there are five pick up trucks loaded with agriculture produce, waiting . Half an hour later, three  drove inside for inspection and two more arrived on site. Drivers report that they have been waiting for an hour and a half and the actual inspection takes another hour and a half.
Taxi drivers gathered around the main gate at the checkpoint, but remained unemployed, as stated, there was a very little traffic of pedestrians.
In Eastern Barta'a more traffic is felt due to the upcoming holiday . The market place has awakened after many months of being almost vacant.

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  • 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).

  • 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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