Tura Checkpoint: A student crossed to attend high school in Jenin.
7.15 – 6.00
Barta’a Checkpoint – 06:00 – The upper parking lot was filled with people who had already crossed the checkpoint and were traveling to work. People coming out of the terminal greeted us and told us that they had crossed quickly, and there were no complaints. The kiosk was closed, and the Palestinian who sold coffee outside the checkpoint had run out of coffee. There was a new director at the checkpoint.
A taxi driver from Barta’a who had a permit to cross the checkpoint with his taxi, was bringing his wife who is a cancer patient from the hospital in Jordan and was delayed far too long while he was checked. When he complained the new director arrived, photographed his certificate, and threatened him with sanctions in the future. The driver told us that many residents of the seamline zone were complaining and that today there would be a meeting between residents of East Barta’a and the new checkpoint director.
There are only rumors regarding the length of the closure for the Purim holiday that will take place next week. People were told that it would be from Monday to Wednesday and our friend A. said that they would announce it on the radio. During the closure for the elections and for Purim workers in the Shahak Industrial zone in the seamline zone were not permitted to go out to work, but during previous closures they were permitted to go to work.
Tura Checkpoint: 06:45 – The checkpoint only opened now. 20 people crossed to the seamline zone. A woman who works in the Shahak Industrial zone complained that she is often late to work because the checkpoint does not open in time. Cars were driving in both directions and crossing took place quickly. A student crossed to attend high school in Jenin.
07:05 – Junior high school girls began to school in the West bank, and children from the lone house arrived by car and were waiting for their ride to school in Um Reihan.
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).
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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)
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