Tura checkpoint: The works to expand the Shaked settlement are advanced
14:45 – 16:05
14:45 – Highway 611
Near the checkpoint, six people pass through the breach in the fence in two directions. In the nearby shooting range, there is military activity, and we heard that occasionally, the military crosses the road, and passage at the breach is delayed a bit.
15:00 – Barta’a Checkpoint
Most of the seamstresses already crossed through and only a few women still hurry from the Seamline Zone to the West Bank. Tens of workers return home from Israel and the Seamline Zone. Two of them, who are prohibited from crossing, receive the note with Sylvia’s details. A family with children arrives from Jenin but passes through the vehicle checkpoint (a long road with no protection from the shade). Passage via the terminal is not working.
15:30 – Tura-Shaked Checkpoint
Three women from Umm Reihan return from a doctor’s visit in Jenin with many purchases. Ten workers return to the West Bank from a day’s work. Another four from Daher al Malek pass through to Ya’bed to work with charcoal. There is a center for packaging local and imported charcoal in Ya’bed. A number of cars pass in two directions and the crossing is fast.
Building a fence that will surround the settlement of Shaked that will choke Daher al Malek, is advancing, and building materials have already been brought to the site.
15:55 – Anin Checkpoint
The soldiers are already there, along with two tractors and three people who wait in vain; there is no key! The exit gate from the checkpoint is closed!
At 16:05 the tractors are sent home via the security road that runs along the separation fence. Only a black dog from Anin passes through freely and hurries through the breach in the fence. In a wide gap next to the gate is a big pile of stones. The military invested a lot of work there, but they didn’t seal the breach.
'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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East Barta'a Junction
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East Barta'a Junction
The main station at the eastern Barta'a junction (Roads 611/6115).
A junction without special activities became about April 2020 a bustling center of transportation to workplaces in Israel, following the free passage through loopholes in the nearby separation fence.
Palestinian workers from all over the West Bank gather here every morning, without transit permits and often without masks. The army is turning a blind eye and the occupation is losing control.
There is also no shortage of coffee and pastry stalls.
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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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