Israeli forces began sweeping farmlands on Sunday in preparation for the construction of a segregation wall in the occupied West Bank.
Bulldozers leveled crops in the town of Sinjil in the central West Bank, with the wall set to deprive landowners of access to their groves and confiscate around 8,000 dunams of land.
The decision to erect the wall was taken eight months ago, part of the far-right Israeli governments plan to isolate Palestinian lands from Highway 60, a SouthNorth intercity road running through the West Bank and stretching from Beersheba to Nazareth.
Speaking to The New Arabs Arabic-language service, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Sinjil Mayor Moataz Tawafsha said the wall would be 1,500 metres long and four metres high, cutting off access to Palestinian farmers and their land.