1983: The current site of the Nitzanei Shalom industrial complex (marked in red) was almost entirely agricultural land, with the exception of the Tulkarm railway station, a logistics hub on the Hejaz Railway before the 1948 Nakba. [Kerem Navot/TNA]
2004: Satellite imagery shows that the industrial estate nearly covers its present-day extent and appears to be occupied by landfills or recycling plants (yellow) and is located east of the separation wall (purple). [Airbus/TNA]
2013: The cement factory (red) begins to take shape with covered production areas and storage yards; waste is stored in large piles several meters high with roads and paths intersecting them (orange). [Maxar/TNA]
2025: Nitzanei Shalom firms include Prima Cement (yellow), a waste disposal facility (red), and Margal (light green). A drainage channel (pink) runs out of the industrial zone, carrying contaminants onto Palestinian land (blue). [Kerem Navot/TNA]
A sequence of images show the development of the Nitzanei Shalom, an illegal Israeli industrial zone in the occupied West Bank, since 1983.