Reihan, Shaked, Wed 7.9.11, Morning
08:10 Shaked-Tura checkpoint.
About ten cars , most of them going in the direction of the West Bank, had crossed over. Inspection time 3-5 minutes. A fellow arrives with a medium size package of cloths that he had bought in Jenin, a few pairs of pants and some shirts. He wanted to cross the gate at the Seam Line zone but he was denied passage with the parcel and he was forced to give it to somebody who went back to Jenin.
10:00 We left the checkpoint, to our surprise it was still open at this time.
10:10 Reihan-Barta'a checkpoint
At the vehicles' inspection post we declared , as requested, that we carry a bag of hand-me-down cloths. We were permitted to take it in. In front of the checkpoint there were five pickup trucks waiting for inspection. In the shed at the Palestinian car park was a 14-year-old boy lying on a mattress. One of the drivers told us that the police had picked him up from the Wadi-Ara road and dropped him off at the checkpoint yesterday. It turns out the kid is a resident of Ya'ata from the vicinity of Hebron . We were unable to find a car that goes to Hebron but in one of the taxis that went to Tul Karen was a resident of Ya'ata. The boy wouldn't give his parents' phone number but the man called someone from the family. We paid for the taxi fare and the boy agreed ro get into the cab, with great difficulties.
In our opinion it is very wrong for the police to abandon a child so far from his home without an adult to look after him and without food. At least at the checkpoint's shed there is a mattress a a faucet of drinking water.
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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