Tura-Shaked
Turah-Shaked checkpoint.
When we arrived, all was deserted and very hot. In a few minutes, the picture changed and lively movement of cars started from the seamline zone towards the West Bank. A brief check of documents and passage is quick.
Tobacco has already been planted in the fields.
15.30-15.50. Yabed-Dotan checkpoint
On the way to Mevo Dotan we pass the lower parking lot of Barta’a checkpoint. The lots are full of cars, including the new one. Cars are parked in every possible spot.
Yabed checkpoint
Not manned; it is decorated with Israeli flags. Traffic flows in both directions. We are greeted by those passing by.
15.50-16.15. Barta’a-Reihan checkpoint.
Many vehicles bring workers back from work. They all hurry home, streaming down the sleeve to the terminal. We ask about the passage in the morning. “It went smoothly,” people tell us. The infuriating occupation routine…
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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