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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces confiscated farming tools and tractors on Wednesday and prevented dozens of workers from reaching lands in eastern Tubas in the northern West Bank.

A member of the central committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine told Ma'an that vehicles belonging to Israel's civilian administration arrived in the al-Atuf and al-Buqeia areas and told the farmers that they were banned from working there.

They confiscated farming tools and tractors and briefly detained dozens of workers before they confiscated their identification cards.

Bassam al-Maslamani said that Israeli forces confiscated the tractors of Mustafa Bani Odeh and Jamal Muhammad Qassem Bani Odeh.

Farmers had announced several days ago a project to extend eight kilometers of water pipes to several plots of land at their own expense, which would cost 200,000 shekels ($55,000).