According to Israeli authorities, the Tal massacre began with what was described as a routine settler hiking excursion on the outskirts of the village in Area B. On another level, the occupation authorities are expanding in issuing military orders to serve their settlement projects in the West Bank. The orders aimed at expanding military and settlement roads, targeted lands in the towns of Arraba, Ya bad, Qabatiya, Masliya, Marqa, and Jarba. - Establishing a new settlement outpost on Palestinian-owned land in the al-Dhahur area of Deristiya, continuing the settlement expansion and land grab. The second required the seizure of 22,026 dunums of land in the town of Yamoun, west of Jenin.