Route 60 at the Heart of the Assault: What Is the Occupation Planning for the Lands of Al-Lubban and Al-Sawiya?
A monitor of Israeli occupation violations south of Nablus, including the uprooting of olive trees, the closure of the entrances to the villages of East Al-Lubban and Al-Sawiya, and the bulldozing of dirt roads, alongside the targeting of dozens of dunams of farmland under a military order.
Israeli occupation forces uprooted olive trees around the Al-Lubban–Al-Sawiya joint secondary school, along the settlement Route 60 south of Nablus, at the same time as they closed the entrances to the villages of East Al-Lubban and Al-Sawiya and bulldozed dirt roads that residents had been forced to use as alternatives to the closed routes.
The violations were carried out yesterday, Monday, as part of measures targeting residents’ land and movement routes in the area, in parallel with the implementation of Military Order No. (66/26), whose decision to uproot trees was communicated to residents on 10 April 2026 under the classification of “taking security measures.”
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the military order targets an area of 32.941 dunams of land belonging to the town of East Al-Lubban, located in Natural Basin No. (4), in the “Al-Sahl” area.
The map attached to the military order shows the targeted land extending along sections of Route 60, spatially intersecting with the site that recently witnessed the uprooting of trees, without confirmation that all the works carried out fall under the same military order.
These measures coincide with the closure of the roads leading to the villages of East Al-Lubban and Al-Sawiya and the bulldozing of dirt tracks used by residents to reach their land and move between areas, at a time when attacks on agricultural land along settlement roads south of Nablus continue.
These measures restrict residents’ movement and limit their access to their land and property, amid the ongoing targeting of land along Route 60
