TULKAEM, September 15, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers began wide-scale land leveling operations on Palestinian lands west of the city of Tulkarm, adjacent to the illegal colony of Beit Hefer.

WAFA correspondent said that this escalation came in implementation of the Israeli occupation army's decision issued Sunday to level and seize approximately 200 dunams of Palestinian-owned land.

The order claims that this decision was made to create a buffer zone to protect the Beit Hefer colony, built on northern Tulkarm lands and surrounded by the racist separation and expansion wall erected by the occupation in 2002.

The targeted lands extend along the western line of the city toward the Shuweika plain to the north. They include areas of agricultural land owned by citizens, in addition to other areas classified as "government land" according to the occupation's classification.

Maps attached to the order mark the confiscated zones in red, with access barred to Palestinians once the bulldozing is complete.

The Tulkarm Agriculture Directorate told WAFA that the seized area amounts to 200 dunams, distributed across five basins, three of which are from the Qaqun basin and two from Tulkarm.

The Directorate affirmed that all of the lands are located adjacent to the apartheid separation wall and include 40 dunams planted with olive trees and various fruit trees, and 160 dunams of open-field cultivation.

This measure is part of the occupation's policy aimed at expanding colonial control and seizing agricultural land, threatening the livelihoods of dozens of farmers in and around Tulkarm.

Y.S