Tura-Shaked
6:55 Shaked-Tura checkpoint
There are no soldiers. Military furniture is scattered around along with other waste in the ditches. We entered the sleeve and strolled to the locked gates. A Captain from the DCO arrives. He does not know why the soldiers haven't shown up. "These are reserve soldiers and I have no control over them".
A young fellow and a car carrying three passengers are waiting. The Bank teller arrives as well, in his new car.
Six more people are waiting and another three cars. All are then joined by two students.
7:30 Soldiers are seen going up the road. We greet them with "Good morning". No one answers. One female soldiers instructs the others, "do not answer them".
7:37 The gate to the inspection cabin opens
7:42 The first person is under inspection
7:45 The first person on the other side crosses into the Seam Line zone
7:50 The first vehicle enters from the side of the West Bank
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)
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