Tura checkpoint: The checkpoint belongs to the army, the garbage - to the soldiers
On our way to Barta’a Checkpoint we saw a maintenance vehicle driving slowly along the security road and a man wearing a fluorescent vest following. We did not understand what he was doing. No one was crossing the well – known hole in the fence at the time, but there were a lot of cars waiting in the village on the other side of the fence.
14:50 – We passed Reihan – Barta’a Checkpoint. Only a few people were crossing to the West Bank through the sleeve and the parking lots were not crowded.
Traffic was flowing as usual on the way to Yaabed – Dotan Checkpoint. We did not see any exceptional presence of the army as we thought we would see during these tense days in the northern part of the West Bank. An armored army jeep was parked next to the pillbox and traffic was moving through the checkpoint as usual. There is also a pillbox here and soldiers looked down at us from above. On our way back we saw that for some reason the gate to Maoz Zvi (Mevo Dotan B.) was open.
We heard on the evening news that there had been an attempt to run soldiers over with a car, which had been thwarted. The army claimed that this had taken place next to one of the pillboxes in the Dotan valley.
15:20 – We returned to Barta’a Reihan Checkpoint. A lineup of cars was waiting to be checked. We did not stay because there was little traffic. Our trunk was checked and shortly after driving out from the inspection point we saw that they were installing electric pillars on the road. The checkpoint is being equipped more and more.
15:30 Tura – Shaked Checkpoint
It was amusing to see that the hole in the fence that is less than 100 meters from the checkpoint is still being used by the light of day right in front of the soldiers’ noses. Two people who had been driven to the checkpoint split up: one of them crossed through the sleeve, the inspection room, a turnstile and another sleeve, while the other stepped over the barbed – wire fence, crossed the dirt road, the security road, and the electric fence and got into his friend’s car that was waiting for him next to the hole. Four cars crossed quickly through the checkpoint to the West Bank.
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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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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