The checkpoint has a new commander, and he is hardening positions
06:00 – Barta’a Checkpoint
The upper parking lot is filled with people who already passed through the checkpoint and travel to work. The people who leave from the terminal greet us, wish us peace, and tell us that the passage is fast and they have no complaints. The Shekem kiosk is closed, and the Palestinian coffee seller, who sells coffee outside the checkpoint, says his coffee is finished.
A new supervisor has been appointed to the checkpoint. A taxi driver from Barta’a, who has a permit to cross the checkpoint, returns his wife, who is ill with cancer, from the hospital in Jordan, and is delayed at the inspection station, a ridiculously long time. When he complained, the new supervisor arrived, photographed the man’s identity card, and threatened him with future sanctions. The driver told us that there are a lot of complaints on the part of the residents of the Seamline Zone, and this morning, there was a meeting between the new supervisor and the head of the Barta’a-Sharkia Council.
On the continuation of the shut down next week, (for the holiday of Purim), there is, in the meantime, only gossip that it will be between Monday through Wednesday. A’ informed us that according to him, there will be an announcement on the radio. He also tells us that the closure (for elections) this week, and the closure for Purim, Shahak workers who are in the Seamline Zone, are not allowed to leave for work. With all the previous closures, they were allowed to pass through the checkpoint.
06:45 – Tura Checkpoint
Only now do they open the checkpoint. .About 20 people pass through to the Seamline Zone. One of them works at the factory in Shahak. Recently, she is late for work because the checkpoint doesn’t open on time. Cars pass in two directions and the passage is fast. One student passes through to the high school in Jenin.
07:05 – Junior high school girls begin to pass through to their school in the West Bank, and children arrive from the solitary home in a car, via the circuitous road around the checkpoint, and get out next to the checkpoint, on the side of the Seamline Zone.There, they wait for transportation to school in Umm Reihan.
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)
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