Tura-Shaked
15:30 – 16:30
15:30 – Tura Checkpoint
A car with passengers waits at the entrance of the checkpoint on the Seamline Zone side, but two soldiers at the inspection stations sit apathetically, conversing calmly, and the checkpoint isn’t opened. Only after five long minutes, the checkpoint picks up and the car passes quickly to the West Bank. Also, a car from the West Bank, with a small child inside, enters the checkpoint and is delayed for no reason. The mother, who crossed the checkpoint by foot, is already waiting long minutes on the Seamline Zone side.
15:40 – Now several cars have already passed through without delay, in two directions; one worker returns home from work in the Seamline Zone.
15:50 Barta`a checkpoint – In the upper parking lot, drivers are offering rides to Jenin, because on the road home to the West Bank is no inspection, and there is no need to pass through the terminal.
Hundreds of workers return from work in Israel and the Seamline Zone, to the West Bank. A resident of Anin, who studied English in India, tells us that he has a permit to work in Israel and to cross several checkpoints, but he hasn’t achieved a permit to cross the agricultural checkpoint of Anin in order to reach the short road to his land.
Students from Shchem and Jenin return home to one of the villages in the West Bank, for a weekend break.
We meet with one of those responsible for the checkpoint, who is interested in our opinions on the way the checkpoint functions. We tell him that one of the complaints of those who pass through early in the morning, is that the conveyor belt that inspects bags, is very slow and there is crowding and delays. He promises us to check this matter and says that “they work all the time to make the crossing efficient.”
According to him, the number that return via Barta’a in the afternoons, (until 19:30), is eight times the number that leave in the morning.
Young boys, students in the 10th grade at the school in Barta’a. return from a trip to the University in Schehem. They pass through slowly, one-by-one, after an inspection of the backpacks and birth certificates.
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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