GHLands : Israeli forces continued their land-clearing operations east of the Tubas Governorate on Thursday, uprooting hundreds of trees and damaging major water transmission pipelines in the village of Atuf and the al-Baqi'a Plain as part of ongoing work to construct a military road and a separation barrier in the area.
Moataz Bisharat, the official responsible for the Jordan Valley file in the Tubas Governorate, said Israeli forces began operations early Thursday morning to uproot hundreds of trees and destroy water transmission pipelines in the agricultural lands east of Atuf village and the al-Baqi'a Plain.
He said the operations resulted in the uprooting of more than 300 olive and grape trees, in addition to the severing of major water pipelines that supply approximately 45,000 dunums of agricultural land, threatening to inflict further damage on the area's agricultural sector.
The latest measures are part of the "Crimson Thread" project, which Israeli forces have been implementing since the beginning of the year. The project includes large-scale land-clearing operations to build a military road and construct a separation barrier on Palestinian-owned land in the Tubas Governorate and the northern Jordan Valley.
According to preliminary plans, the barrier will extend approximately 22 kilometers from the village of Ein Shibli to the Tayasir military checkpoint. Its construction is expected to isolate tens of thousands of dunums of land behind its route, including extensive agricultural areas, further consolidating Israeli control over the Jordan Valley and deepening its separation from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
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