In April, 2002, Israel decided to carry out its plans to build a wall labeled as the security wall. It argued that this wall is intended to engulf the population centers in the West Bank for the purpose of preventing Palestinian infiltrators from carrying out explosions in the Israeli population centers. It announced that the project consists of three stages starting with what it described as the most dangerous geographic areas surrounded by heavy Palestinian population centers, and ending with a long wall separating Jordan valley in the east from the rest of the West Bank.