The Northern Checkpoints, Tura: The occupation does not control the soldiers' garbage
16.45-15.45
Tura Checkpoint – 15:45 The checkpoint is quiet. The IDF garbage container, which was filled to the brim inside the IDF checkpoint, was taken out to pollute the civilian environment and disturb the Palestinians passing through the checkpoint. The workers complain that recently they open the checkpoint half an hour later, at 7.00 and even later. For them it means a significant delay to work!
Workers return east to the West Bank, families with children returning west from Jenin to the seam zone, and cars passing in both directions. The passage is fast. A boy returns from Jenin, crosses the checkpoint to the seam zone and goes to the solitary house. The wonders of the considerations that guided the course of the separation wall.
Barta’a Checkpoint – 16.05 students (mostly female students) return from Al Najah University in Nablus. They study mainly nursing. Cars arrive one after another and bring dozens of workers returning home from Israel and the seam zone. Some of them tell us that they worked in Netanya, Pardes Hanna and Herzliya, but in the morning they had to leave for work from the distant Jalameh checkpoint and hence took a hike in the country to get to their work. Most of them are allowed to return from here in the afternoon (the checkpoint is close to their homes) and they complain that they are not allowed to cross from here in the morning. Families with children and shopping pass in both directions.
We were approached by people with various problems (renewing entry permits, not getting receipts for payments) we referred them to Silvia and Kav LaOved.
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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