Reihan, Shaked, Wed 6.6.12, Morning
Marejka and I were at Shaked and Rihan today and we had a very interesting time.
Arrived 8.45 Shaked. All fine. No problems. Very few people. School holidays have begun. A young man approached us and asked if in our organisation somebody could help him with getting electricity and water. Where do you live, we asked? Khirbet el Mountar. Would you like to come and see? So off we went.
It is a hamlet on a hill on the way to Rihan very close to the fence and with an antenna right close to his property. His grandfather, Yusuf Hussein Zaid got the property of some 50-60 dunams from his granfather. They have a kustan. The grandfather had 4 children. Now there are 9 families with 3 houses and 37 people all together. They collect rainwater which is depleted by about May and then they have to buy water and somebody brings it to them. They have 2 generators which run on diesel and they use them from 19.30 to 21.30.
All the adults have magnetic cards and can cross to Barta'a. One brother has an ishur for Israel. School is in Zabda. Kupat Cholim and pharmacy in Yabed. They can visit their friends but their friends from Zabda cannot visit them. They cook with gas and the fridge runs on gas. They have a lawyer in Cfar Ara and Cfar Sinan (a Druse) and between them they have sent about 8-12 letters to Matak asking for electricity and water. They have never received a reply. They used to walk to Zabda which took about 5 minutes and then in 2003 the fence separated them from Zabda and now they have to go by car. The electricity poles are very close to their property and the water pipe taking water to Rihan passes by on the road which is also very close by
We arrived in Rihan checkpoint at 10.45 and stayed until 11.45. There were 15 lorries waiting and as we arrived 4 went in for checking. When we left 12 were waitng and there were no drivers as they had parked ready for tomorrow.
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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