The Israeli occupation forces started at mid February, 2006, to construct the Tarqumiya terminal on bypass road number 35 in Hebron governorate. The Israeli army contacted the Palestinian land owners from the Hebronite family of Shawar informing them of the intension to uproot more than 60 long – lived olive trees in preparation for the terminal construction. See Map 1
Map 1: Location of Tarqumiay terminal north west of Hebron city
Map prepared by LRC
The terminal is located on the lands of the Palestinian Khirbet Jamrura (15 km to the west of Hebron city) at the depth of about one and a half kilometer to the east of the green line (armistice line) inside the West Bank territory and about 300 meters to the west of the current checkpoint on the same road. The construction of the new terminal at this depth comes in a breach of the Israeli high court's last summer's ruling that the terminal should be built only 30 meters from the green line. See Photo 1 & Photo 2
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Photo 1 & Photo 2: The current Tarqumiya checkpoint on road number 35-
Hebron governorate, Photo courtesy of LRC
The Tarqumiya terminal is going to be an integral part of the Annexation and Expansion Wall currently being built over the lands of the Jerusalemite family of Al Husseini and Hebronite family of Shawar in Khirbet Jamrura. About 500 dunums of fertile agricultural lands and hundreds of forest lands will be bulldozed or separated behind the Wall in this area.
The Wall route in this particular section has been designed to serve the interests of a group of Jewish investors in the north western part of Hebron governorate such as the Ben Ari quarry to the west of Beit Ula town. See Photo 3
Photo courtesy of LRC
The Tarqumiya terminal is only one of eleven similar crossings which are under construction through out the West Bank, all inside the West Bank territory. In Hebron governorate with half million population, the Tarqumiay terminal will be the only one leading to Israel. All trade and commercial exchanges, labor movement as well as humanitarian cases have to be conducted through these eleven WB terminals upon supervision of the Israeli security apparatuses. See Photo 4
Photo 4: The road that goes to Ben Ari quarry to the west of Beit Ula town
Photo courtesy of LRC
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
