Tura-Shaked
Tura – Shaked 07.25 – 08.05
It was a clear day with cold winds. When we arrived, a long queue was waiting in front of the turnstile on the Jordan Valley side – dozens of people. What had happened? Apparently the key to the computer room had been forgotten. . . . At first, people passed through one by one, extremely slowly. One of them summed it up: “this is a shitty day”. The queue lengthened and also became rather noisy. Then small groups started to pass a bit faster, while the registration was apparently done by hand. Now things began to move and when we left everyone had passed through, including two cyclists. The cars passed through fast in both directions. Nevertheless, all those passing through were very polite to us, greeted us and some even asked for help.
08.15 – 08.45 Barta’a-Reichan
Here the passage was fast, two windows were open, we didn’t observe a big queue and also those passing-through told us “everything is OK”.
A man from Ya’bed approached us for help: during the last Yom Kippur, his family’s olive orchard near Shaked was burned down – more than 500 old trees. He didn’t attribute this to arson but to a fire on a hot day. (The fire dept. is still investigating this). In order to clear and rehabilitate the burned area, and to and to plant new trees, the family needs a permit to pass through the checkpoint with a car, a tractor and the necessary equipment. “We have submitted all the necessary documents to the civil administration, to this place and that, but we haven’t received any answer”. The orchard is near the Tura checkpoint, but they can only get a permit for passage (for pedestrians only) through the Barta’a checkpoint. We took down the details and would try to help.
In the car-park we met Mary, her brother, and her father, Amjad, who were waiting for transport to Um-Al-Fachem for physiotherapy.
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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