Tura checkpoint: Thanks to the breach in the fence, you get to work on time
06:10 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
We were very early because we wanted to see the activity at the breach in the fence that is next to the checkpoint. Several people, with a cigarette and a cup of coffee in hand, the separation fences on both sides of the road Several people crossed quickly crossed the separation fences, from two sides of the road, with cigarettes and a cup of coffee in hand. We greeted them with “Have a good day.” Two hundred meters from here, at the turn to the Shaked settlement, a policeman stood, alone, looking like he was preying someone. He asked us to leave.
06:25 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
We went down the path for pedestrians, the sleeve (the enclosed pathway to the terminal) with a few workers who were still crossing the heavily invested checkpoint. Only one wore a mask. According to them, they don’t have to wear a mask inside the terminal. When we returned to our car, the man with the mask still running up the sleeve and complained that it this long road is very hard for him. “Do something,” he requested. In the truck parking lot, there was one loaded van. Continuing the way, Marina noticed many signs that had sprouted up everywhere, suggesting, on behalf of the Shomron Council, an emergency number to call.
We passed by Harmish Checkpoint only to prove that as usual, it was open and not guarded as it has been for a long time. We were also overcome with joy at seeing the nurtured fields and vineyards and at the landscape which we can’t get enough of.
07:10 – Ya’bed-Mevo Dotan Checkpoint
The traffic flows without delay. Around the ugly checkpoint–the fertile Emek Dotan prepares for rain. When we returned, we stopped at Amricha, with S., “the Bedouin,” and left packages that accumulated in our car. At the bridge above the road to Caffeine, for some reason, there was a military armored vehicle.
When we again passed Barta’a, we counted 11 cars for inspection. The female security guard at the exit asked if we were reporters (Marina wrote in her notebook) and how our morning was. We said we were indeed writers, but not for newspapers, thank you. Yes, yes, she is familiar with Machsom Watch.
in the sides of the road to East Barta’a, many minibusses wait in an orderly fashion for Palestinians who cross via the breach in the fence, something that perhaps explains the relative quiet at the checkpoint.
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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Hermesh
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Hermesh
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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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Ya'bed-Dotan
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Ya’bed-Dotan
This checkpoint is located on road 585, at the crossroads of Mevo Dotan settler-colony / Jenin/ Ya’abad. It has an army watchtower (‘pillbox’ post) and concrete blocs that slow down vehicular traffic. It was erected when Barta’a Checkpoint, lying to the west on the Separation Fence, was privatized and its operation was passed over to civilian security personnel. Since December 2009 this checkpoint enables flow of Palestinian vehicular traffic towards the Barta’a Checkpoint. Seldom is it manned by soldiers sitting in the watchtower, who conduct random inspections of vehicles and passengers. (february 2020)
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