Reihan, Shaked, Wed 31.3.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Yesterday there was closure. Today Shaked is quiet and people at Reihan are managing.
07:45- Shaked-Tura
Several children dressed in school uniforms, with open notebooks in their hands, are walking up the road. They go through quickly. There is very little traffic and almost no one goes through. There is mostly movement of military vehicles. We arrived after the busy hour, but perhaps there is less traffic due to the Passover holiday.
08:30 – Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
The section of road leading to the checkpoint, which was narrow and required drivers passing each other to behave politely, has been repaved. The parking lot on the Palestinian side is completely full. Four trucks with agricultural produce are waiting to be checked and then go through to East Barta'a. One of the drivers claims that he has been waiting since 06:00.
At 08:50 a group of 27 people arrives, including a small child, Amran, who was seen exiting the terminal after 10 minutes. A woman with a baby leaves the checkpoint 15 minutes after she arrived after the usual procedure of rude shouts of "Hamsa, hamsa!" (Five at a time, five at a time) and "Sakker el telefon" (Close your telephone!). No one else is waiting at the entrance. Six vehicles drive up to the first station on their way to be checked. And go in after 5 minutes.
At 09:20 the trucks drive up to be checked. A smiling young man without proper work permits but with a lot of resourcefulness describes his survival routine. He was detained in the checkpoint for an hour and a half and is now on the way home for a vacation.
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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