Reihan, Shaked, Wed 5.12.12, Afternoon
15:30 – Shaked checkpoint
Vehicles as well as pedestrians cross over on both sides. Passage is quick.
16:00 – Reihan checkpoint
Upon our arrival we saw about 100 people going up the sleeve, fast and get out by the vehicles inspection post. It turns out that the computers inside the terminal are out of order. One of the checkpoint workers had sorted out people according to their work place; Those returning from Israel went by one by one and their permits were checked. Those working at the Seam Line zone were inspected by the Bio-Metric device for personal recognition, located at the vehicle inspection post. In the mean time they were joined by 100 more people. Passage by the carousel was handled in a perfect order and swiftly, too bad that it had stopped at 16:25 when the computer were back in order.
16:25– People who had returned from Jenin and were detained at the terminal until the computer regain function, are now coming out. Workers who go back to the West Bank enter the terminal in groups of 6-7 at a time and are handled in only one window.
16:35 – Five illegal aliens are detained inside the terminal. Many crowed by the carousel awaiting entrance to the terminal, one security officer lines people up in two lines: Those returning from Israel are let in through one carousel and go to a window that was just opened. Those returning from the Seam Line zone' are let inside in groups of 20 through the other carousel.
Passage is swift and there is no crowing outside.
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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