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Reihan, Tue 7.2.12, Afternoon

Place: Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
Tags: Passage Restrictions
Observers: Yocheved, Hanah
Feb-07-2012
| Afternoon
 

Reihan – 15:20

Workers return from their work in Israel and in the Seam Line zone and tell us that in the morning passage was ok. There is a fast passage of pedestrians on both direction.

A store owner in Barta'a who lives in the village of Nazlat Eisa, which is under the rule of the Tul Karem DCO, complains that his passage permit allows him to cross every morning through the Taibe checkpoint only after 07:00. Asa result he gets to his store around 09:00. He feels lucky that he's allowed to return through the Reihan (Barta'a) checkpoint.

16:20– The stream of returning workers increases but they quickly enter the terminal.

On the main highway and at the lower car park there are 10 cars with goods, apparently waiting for tomorrow morning.

 

  • 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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