Reihan, Shaked, Wed 3.8.11, Morning
6.55 – 10.00
6.55 Shaked-Tura CP
Seven soldiers are slowly climbing up to the CP. The first gate opens at 7.03. At 7.12 the first of those to go through is a herd of goats. The red-head from Daher-el-Malek is driving his family to Ya'abed. At 7.20 Dvorah who belongs to the drivers of 'On the Way to Getting Well', arrives. She is allowed to pick up Zina and her mother from the center of the CP, between the gates. She will take them to Ilan in Jerusalem. Only a few are going through today. At 7.25 a second car enters going in the direction of the West Bank. A number of workers are waiting to be picked up. At 7.45, the CP is empty of people who want to go through.
8.20 Reihan-Barta'a
A truck loaded with blocks is waiting on the road. At 8.33 seven cars go up for inspection. They emerge after twenty minutes on the dot. In the Palestinian parking lot opposite the Entrance/Exit gate to and from the terminal – a taxi driver is waiting for passengers to Jenin. The price of the trip for a single passenger is ten shekels. A 'Special' trip costs seventy shekels. The livelihood of those who drive people in private cars has been hurt seriously, because the commercial taxi drivers have the right to first choice. Workers who enter the terminal are seen in the sleeve that emerges to the north, after eight minutes. At 9.00 the parking lot is almost full. An Israeli garbage truck arrives from the West Bank and goes through quickly in the direction of Israel. At 9.30 the truck with the blocks comes up to the inspection pavilion and another six pickup trucks come up at the same time. A small truck, loaded with mattresses, packages of clothes and straw chairs, on its way to the West Bank, is detained on the road. It turns out that it has to be inspected in the area that is generally designated for cars that arrive from the West Bank. The driver slumps in the shed. He is told that his turn for inspection will be in another two hours.
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)
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