Reihan, Shaked, Wed 9.12.09, Morning
There were close to no people at all waiting at this time of day. Pupils from the Seam Line zone crossed over to their school at Tura in the West Bank.
One man said that his "Tasreech" – passage permit – was taken from him. He has one wife in Daher-el-Melek at the Seam Line zone and a second wife in the West Bank, on the other side of the fence. He crosses over, back and forth, daily. Authorities do not allowed his wife to move from the West Bank into the Seam Line zone.
Another person told us that he used to work in construction at the Shaked settlement where he was caught. He resides in Daher el-Malek in the Seam Line zone but is unable to work in Shaked without a special permit.
08:40 – Rihan-Barta'a checkpoint
Six trucks loaded with vegetables and other goods wait for inspection. Drivers report of an hour of waiting. When we left, an hour later, they were still waiting.
Pedestrians walked quickly through the terminal, but we did observe something odd. One person crossed the terminal in the direction of the West Bank and when he was almost out, the inspector at the booth called him back and once more inspected the inside of his bag. Later, that person came out.
Yet another person told us that his wife from East Barta'a had married him and moved in with him at the West Bank. That woman has an appointment, this week, for a head surgery at the Augusta Victoria hospital in East Jerusalem. Her husband could not attain a permit to escort her. The wife, who was born in Barta'a ,has a passage permit to the Seam Line zone, but her husband can not obtain such a permit.
We've heard a story from a store owner at East Baka (West Bank). He used to purchase merchandise in the village of Kara (Israel). Lately his merchant license was taken from him with the excuse that he was "bannedfor reasons of security", due to stone throwing in Hebron at one time, which he utterly denies.
09:45 – We left with bad feelings.
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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