On Wednesday, 24 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator at the al-Matar area, located east of Jericho. The force demolished a family’s home, leaving 12 people–including five minors–homeless. It also destroyed the home’s fence and a sheep pen, and uprooted fruit trees.
On Tuesday, 23 July 2024, at around 9:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and four excavators at the community of al-Jawaya in the South Hebron Hills and demolished a residential tent that belonged to a family of 10, including seven minors. The family had been forced to live in the tent since the Civil Administration demolished their home on 4 June 2024.The family was left without shelter for a second time. The forces then continued south to the village of a-Tuwani, where they demolished the home of another family of 10–including five minors–leaving them homeless, too.
On Thursday, 18 July 2024, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and four excavators to northern Jericho and demolished four vacation homes—two of which were under construction—four swimming pools, and approximately 10 water tanks.
On Thursday, 17 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and Border Police officers at the community of Khirbet a-Taybah in Hebron District. The military declared the community a "firing zone" during the war and its residents were expelled, but they continue to go there to graze their sheep. The forces demolished an agricultural structure and damaged three water tanks, a gate, and a shade structure for the sheep.
On Sunday, 14 July 2024, Civil Administration officials arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the Satiah area of western Jericho and demolished a vacation home under construction, a pool, and two water tanks owned by the family building the house. This, in addition to the fence surrounding their plot of land, and a storage shed owned by a different family.
On Thursday, 11 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military Border Police escort and an excavator at Khirbet Qalqas neighborhood in the city of Hebron. They demolished a three-story building that housed three families’ apartments, leaving 18 people, including 11 minors, homeless.
On Thursday, 11 July 2024, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the area of al-Matar, east of Jericho, and demolished two vacation homes under construction owned by two families. Additionally, the forces demolished five horse stables that belonged to a different family–one of which was under construction–a fence surrounding the stables, a lounge made of stone, a metal storage shed, and two water containers.
On the morning of Monday, 8 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two excavators to the community of Qawawis in the South Hebron Hills. They demolished a house and a sheep pen, leaving a family of two homeless.The forces then moved north to the community of She'b al-Batem, where they demolished homes used seasonally by two families, totaling 17 people, including nine minors, and two agricultural structures belonging to a third family.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley. They demolished a home used seasonally by a family of four, including two minors, as well as their water tank.
On Thursday, 4 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort at the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta. The forces demolished the homes of six families, numbering a total of 33 people, including 17 minors. Four of the families, numbering a total of 19 people, including 12 minors, were left homeless. The remaining two homes were seasonal. The forces demolished a livestock pen belonging to another family.
On Wednesday, 3 July 2024, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a digger at Fasayil al-Wasta in the central Jordan Valley and demolished the foundations of a residential building under construction pursuant to Order No. 1797. From there, the forces moved on to Fasayil al-Foqa and demolished a finished but still vacant residential building.
On Tuesday, 2 July 2024, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two diggers at the village of al-Jiftlik in the central Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of one family, leaving 11 people, including eight minors, homeless.
The Civil Administration demolishes five residential shacks in the Jericho area, leaving 23 people, 11 of them minors, homeless
Today, 3 June 2020, around 7:00 A.M., about 15 military jeeps escorted by a crane truck and a bulldozer came to Abu Dahuk community in the Deir Hajla area of Jericho. The forces demolished five residential shacks of an extended family and another structure it used as a kitchen, leaving 23 people, 11 of them minors, homeless. In addition, the forces confiscated three water containers, six solar panels, four air conditioners, two refrigerators and shade sails, belonging to the same family.
The family lived for 30 years at a site, about ten kilometers east of the current one. On 20 January 2020, the military handed the family a stop-work and demolition order and expelled from their previous place of residence on the grounds that it is a closed military zone.
The Civil Administration Demolishes eight residential Structures and an agricultural structure in various communities in the South Hebron Hills
Today, Wednesday, 3 June 2020, around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with an escort of Border Police officers, military jeeps, a bulldozer and a digger to Khirbet al-Mufaqarah in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished a tent that served as a residence for a family of two . Later on, the forces continued east to the Mughayir al-‘Abid community and demolished a tent used for agricultural purposes.
From there, the forces continued south to Khirbet al-Fakhit, where they demolished a tent that served as a residence for seven people, three of them minors. Finally, the forces continued south to Khirbet al-Markez, where they demolished six residential buildings, four of which were tin-covered cinderblock structures and two tents. The six structures housed 35 people, 25 of them minors. The structures were built with financial aid from the European Union.
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Demolition of a residential building in Khirbet al-Markez. Photo: Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 3 June 2020.