The apartheid wall being constructed by Israel along the West Bank brought far reaching risks and calamity on life of the Palestinians, as it had expropriated 150,000 dunums of their lands, and impacted their carved antiquities.

Dozens of the archeological sites in the West Bank have been bitterly affected as the wall took parts of some of these sites which embody the ancient times of the Palestinian people, particularly in Tulkarem city, north of the West Bank.

IPC correspondent said that the apartheid wall , had seized more than 40,000 dunums, including archeological sites, of the wealthiest agricultural lands that the citizens mainly rely on to earn their living.

Kherbt Shamseen, the site of ruins straddled between Qefeen and Baqa Al Sharqia villages. It is a Roman village, located on 60 Dunums, rich with deep-seated limestone and the ruins of old ancient -structures and basements of water reservoirs as well as rocky segments. Few years ago the site had witnessed a flow of tourists but today the wall swallowed the site of ruins.

Om qaseer, a Roman site of ruins sits on between Qifeen and Nazelt Al Sharqia villages. The wall cut off a part of it, including basements, wells, caves, walls, and cemeteries. Its limestone stretches along 10 dunums.

The wall also gulped the site ruins of Rahal, west of Deir Al Ghesoun village. The apartheid wall route cut it from the heart. It covers an area of 8 dunums. At the time of the excavations for constructing the wall in the area, an Israeli mission was there, meaning their plotted intents to plunder the Palestinian heritage.

One of the essential archaeological sites seized by the Israeli occupation and annexed by the wall is Tal Shweka or Tal Al Rass, witnessing the rotation of the ancient civilizations, proving its wealthy heritage. It’s the site that witnessed the emerging civilization in the ancient times, particularly throughout the bronze and the Iron eras or the Romanian and Byzantine ages, according to crockery inductions.

The Tal area was once a day a route for the military and trade convoys, coming from north to south of Palestine. It is believed that the Tal has been the battlefield of the Qadsh battle between the Egyptian army and the Canaanite.

Shewek Tal is adjacent to the apartheid wall, desperately affected by the excavations perpetrated by the Israeli heritage crews as the wall construction was in process. Likewise, the site of ruins, Zaharan, located between Safreen and Kafer Al Lubad villages, east of Tulkarem, is also featured with its old church, mosaic walls, as well as the basements of old buildings and other ancient monuments.

Worthy to note that Tal Shweka is close to the illegitimate Jewish settlement of “Annab”, which jeopardizes remains of Tal.

However, the calamity of Tulkarem is not different from the rest of the Palestinian cities that have been gravely curtailed by the apartheid wall, which continues to sneak more deep into the these cities, eliminating all the deep-seated historical and cultural monuments of the Palestinian people.