Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05.45. Barta’a – Rehan checkpoint, Palestinian side.
The Palestinian ‘usher’ hesitates whether we are allowed to park at the edge of the parking lot. He phones and gets permission. There is no queue. Many people arrive and pass immediately through the turnstile. A few pass from the seam zone towards the West Bank.
06.05. The seam zone side.
Many people standing and sitting beside the road, waiting for transport. A few wait in the shed. Yellow taxis and other cars wait for passengers going to work. We enter the wire sleeve towards the terminal opening. Five checking stations are open. They say that two stations are for checking bags and containers, but one is out of order today. People come out quickly from the terminal. Many stop at the (settler’s) kiosk for coffee and pastry. The smell of pastry mingles with the smell of blooming jasmine. On the other side of the wire sleeve, a vine is in leaf with unripe grapes. Spring at the checkpoint …
Three people ask for help in cancelling refusal of permits by Security and the police. We give them phone numbers and hope for the best
06.40. A’anin checkpoint: the checkpoint opens late.
We are late for the opening time (6.30), but so, too, are the soldiers. At 6.45 the first person passes, and after that people pass reasonably quickly. About 50 people and 6 tractors. Two families pass on a visit to Um el Rehan. One woman was not allowed to pass. We do not know why.
Late opening of the checkpoint in the afternoon: At 15.30 our acquaintance M. phoned to say that they had not yet opened (the official opening time is 15.00). We phoned the D.C.O. and the soldier said she would enquire. At 15.50 the gate opened. Also last Thursday the gate opened late.
07.10. Tura-Shaked checkpoint. The checkpoint, where few pass, ‘excels’ in its slowness.
The passage to the seam zone is very slow. A contractor from Um il Fahem waits for his workers. Like us he cannot understand why on Thursda;y they open at 07.00 and not at 06.30, as on Monday through Wednesday.The contractor is astounded at the sight of little children having to pass through the checkpoint on their way to school. He compares them with his spoiled children in Um il Fahem.
07.40. The contractor’s workers have not yet passed through. We leave.
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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