Israel's Defense Ministry has formulated a plan to extend its security barrier into a new area of the West Bank, despite international pressure to stop construction, Israeli official has said Friday. The new segment would cut off the Jordan Valley and connect it to Israel. Earlier in October, Israel has approved a series of security barriers that would run through the West Bank, in most areas relatively close to Israel. Officials explained that fences, razor wires and trenches were constructed in order to keep Palestinian suicide bombers and gunmen away. The Palestinian side, however, claimed that Israel was grabbing land, and that the move would block any way to a political solution of conflict between the two states.

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