Tura Checkpoint: Let's recycle the trash of the occupation
The checkpoint returned to normal routine after the attack two days ago (13 June 2023), but a resident of Ya’bed advises us not to cross to the Palestinian side of the separation fence.
15:10 – Agricultural Checkpoint, Anin
This checkpoint is only open on Mondays and Wednesdays. A pleasant male and female soldier approached us and immediately understand that we came to observe the progress in the wall’s construction. Indeed, progress and threatening. Adina, who until now hadn’t seen a wall like this, was shocked. We were told that yesterday’s problem with the gate was fixed. On Monday, tractors will also be able to cross. The soldiers allowed us to turn around again in the checkpoint area.
15:30 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
The checkpoint was opened today as usual (there were problems yesterday), and there is no need to go further to the Barta’a checkpoint in order to cross to the Seamline Zone. The traffic is slow in both directions. A woman is driving a car, an unusual sight at this checkpoint. She crosses over to the Seamline Zone.
It is filthy around the checkpoint. Adina is especially sensitive to the plastic bottles thrown around that might pollute the seawater and kill the fish. She found a big bag and collected the bottles. A male and female soldier from the border police were a little amazed but didn’t disturb her.
16:00 – Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint, the Seamline Zone Side
In the Arab sector, the wedding season is in full swing. About 20 men in white shirts wait in the terminal. All of them are residents of Ya’bed, and work as waiters in the event halls in the Israeli Palestinian settlements: Baka al Garbia, Jisr al Zarka, and others. We talk with an older waiter who speaks Hebrew fluently. He asks what we are doing and expresses great sympathy. He tells of army activities in Ya’bed since the shooting attack two days ago. He advises us not to cross the separation fence today. There are too many activities in the area. We also think so. His friend asks for help in canceling his restraining order and we give him a note with details from Sylvia (for help in presenting a request to remove this prohibition) and wish him luck. A woman with two toddlers sits at the entrance to the sleeve (the enclosed long, passage to the terminal). Sad. We go down the sleeve to the passage to the West Bank with the stream of those returning from work. Among those who cross there is only one woman and two children. On the way back, we have a little problem going against the flow.
16:30 – A few waiters are still waiting for transportation. One of them asks if we finished our business. Another prays in the shed.
The plastic bottles found their place in the orange recycling container in Haifa
'Anin checkpoint (214)
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'Anin checkpoint (214)
'Anin checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence east of the Israeli community Mei Ami and close to the village of Anin in the West Bank. It is opened twice a week, morning and afternoon, on days with shorter light time, for Anin farmers whose olive groves have been separated from the village by the fence it became difficult to cultivate their land. Transit permits are only issued to those who can produce ownership documents for their caged-in land, and sometimes only to the head of the family or his widow, eldest son, and children. Sometimes the inheritors lose their right to tend to the family’s land. The permits are eked out and are re-issued only with difficulty. 55-year-old persons may cross the checkpoint (into Israel) without special permits. During the olive harvest season (about one month around October) the checkpoint is open daily and more transit permits are issued. Names of persons eligible to cross are held in the soldiers’ computers. In July 2007, a sweeping instruction was issued, stating that whoever does not return to the village through this checkpoint in the afternoon will be stripped of his transit permit when he shows up there next time. Since 2019, the checkpoint has not been allways locked with the seam-line zone gate (1 of 3 gates), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.
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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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