Reihan, Shaked, Wed 30.3.11, Morning
Translated by Yael S.
07:45 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
Along with us, two more cars arrived on site from both sides. Drove through.A woman with a baby buggy walk in the direction of the West Bank. A herd of sheep and its shepherd went through, as usual into the Seam Line zone.
Innovation on site: the post of the observing soldier had been elevated on four concrete blocks.
09:00 Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Four trucks waited for inspection. Two cars waited at the upper car inspection post, for passage into the West Bank. The passengers crossed over by sliding their magnetic cards. There were "no problems" inside the terminal.
A van was parked at the side of the road. It belongs to the Palestinian Authority Medical Services. We were under the impression that they were waiting for somebody. After half an hour we walked over to inquire; it turned out that there were nurses and doctors who hold passage permits to the Seam Line zone but there was no permit for the vehicle. They did not turn to the Israeli DCO but rather to a department at the PA that had sent them over. After another fifteen minutes we called the DCO explaining that the medical team cannot cross without their vehicle and the medical equipment inside it. The story was familiar to the DCO and said they'd allow them to drive through. in the meantime another car had "cut" them on the way for inspection.
We called Sharon, the checkpoint manager. His reply was that even when traveling abroad one must wait. He added that he'd had it with our constant criticism.
10:30 The medical team and their car had crossed over. and we 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)
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