Reihan, Shaked, Wed 4.1.12, Morning
08:30 Shaked-Tura CP
School children are already returning from school in Tura (West Bank) to their homes in the seamline zone after a test. Again we meet the resident from Daher el Malik who has changed his car, and his new car does not succeed in getting registered in the CP computer. The man works in Jenin and driving through the Barta'a-Reihan CP is a trip that is a long way around for him. He often gives up trying to take his car to the seamline zone; he leaves it in Tura on the West Bank and walks from the CP to his home. The man told us that people who live in Umm el Reihan also have this kind of problem when they get different cars.
09:40 Reihan-Barta'a CP
The Palestinian parking lot is full of cars. So is the lot that is a bit far at the top of the road. There drivers have to pay five shekels for the day's parking. This morning we met drivers that we have not seen for a long time. The fellow who works in the improvised kiosk is the son of a driver who had a terrible accident and cannot work. The fellow who is 19 years old is trying to earn a livelihood for the family. The tradesmen and the workers in Barta'a go through in 5-15 minutes. There are no special problems. Five trucks transporting food are waiting to go through to the seamline zone. At about 10:00 they entered for inspection.
11:10 We left the CP and went back through East Barta'a. It looks as if trade is very lively there.
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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