Tura Checkpoint morning - Late opening means teachers are late

Place:

Barta'a-Reihan

Tura-Shaked

Observers:

.Hagar Dror-Meliniiak (camera) and Hana Heller. Translation: Danah Ezekiel

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Sep-27-2023

Afternoon

Barta’a checkpoint - On the way to the checkpoint we follow the rapid construction of the formidable separation wall that already surrounds the entire area of the Tura village and reaches the Barta’a checkpoint

Barta'a: rapid construction of the separation fence

Photo:

Hagar Dror

A group of Palestinian waiters who go to work at weddings in the Seam zone and in Israel walk up the long sleeve info-icon from the Bank to the parking lot in the Seam area. Together with them, families with children and students returning from the universities for a weekend vacation return from Jenin to Eastern Barta'a.

Towards 4:00 p.m, the flow of workers returning to the West Bank from their work in Israel and in the Seam Zone increases. They tell us that in the morning, between 5:00 and 6:00, the crossing was relatively quick (between 20 and 40 minutes) and there was no crowding.

An Israeli girl from Um el-Fahem - a city close to the checkpoint - crosses the checkpoint to visit relatives in the West Bank, but she will have to make her way back home through the Jalama checkpoint (Gilboa) or through the Taybeh checkpoint (Shaar Ephraim), which are very far away.

In the part of the sleeve near the terminal, several new cameras were installed.

Barta'a: new cameras in the sleeve close to the terminal

Photo:

Hagar Dror

Tura checkpoint - Cars pass in both directions, a young woman from Umm Reihan is returning from an office job in Jenin, she also tells us that in the morning there is a great density of vehicles and people leaving the West Bank for work and teaching in the schools in the seam area info-icon . Lately we hear this claim every time - because of the late opening (7.30 - 7.15) of the checkpoint, the workers and especially the teachers fear being late for work.

Young people pass the checkpoint in both directions and about twenty workers return to the West Bank from work in Israel.

Location Description

Tura-Shaked Checkpoint

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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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The locked gate at the Anin checkpoint

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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).