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Tarqumiya, Wed 24.10.07, Morning
Place:
Tarqumiya CP
Observers: Tal E., Yael Z. (reports)
Tarqumiya
We faced no workers vehicles on our way to the CP, neither were parking there.
We then found out that the rate of pedestrians passing through was faster than the rate of cars checked. The checking was done by 4 soldiers while one Boarder Police soldier and Shlomy, the soldier in charge, were escorting the process.
It was so efficient that at 6.00 the place was empty and we went home.
The workers reported that the beginning of the week was hard and some had been bitten by a beduin soldier. Shlomy admitted that the last Mondays more workers arrived and more tense was felt.
5.15- 6.00
We faced no workers vehicles on our way to the CP, neither were parking there.
We then found out that the rate of pedestrians passing through was faster than the rate of cars checked. The checking was done by 4 soldiers while one Boarder Police soldier and Shlomy, the soldier in charge, were escorting the process.
It was so efficient that at 6.00 the place was empty and we went home.
The workers reported that the beginning of the week was hard and some had been bitten by a beduin soldier. Shlomy admitted that the last Mondays more workers arrived and more tense was felt.
Tarqumiya CP
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The Tarqumiya Checkpoint is one of the largest and busiest checkpoints where people and goods cross into Israel. It is located on the Separation Barrier close to the Green Line, on Road 35 (connecting Beer Sheva and Hebron). It is run by the Israel Defense Ministry’s Crossings Administration with civilian secuirty companies running the day to day operations. The checkpoint is indeed open to vehicles in both directions 24/7, but Palestinians are prevented from crossing in vehicles, except in special cases. MachsomWatch activists visit the checkpoint as it opens at 3:45 am, in order to observe the daily passage of nearly 10,000 Palestinian workers. The workers arrive from throughout the Southern West Bank. Our activists report on the tremendous overcrowding at this checkpoint; they have observed young men climbing and scrambling on the fences and roofs of the ‘access cages’. This is how the work day begins for those who ‘build the land of Israel’. updated November 2019
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