On Tuesday, 20 January 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at Khirbet a-Twayel in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished four residential tents, four tents used as livestock enclosures and a water tank belonging to two families numbering 11 people in total, including seven minors, who were left homeless.
On 22 December 2025, dozens of Jerusalem Municipality workers, Israel Police officers and Border Police officers demolished a four-story residential building in Wadi Qadum, East Jerusalem, claiming it was built without a permit. The building contained 12 apartments where 77 Palestinians lived, including 21 minors. The demolition left all of them without shelter.During the operation, the forces blocked roads and threw stun grenades at Palestinians who approached. Soon after the forces arrived to clear the apartments, one of the inhabitants resisted and confronted them. He was later assaulted by the municipal workers.As part of its efforts to expel Palestinians and carry out ethnic cleansing, Israel enforces a policy that disrupts every aspect of life for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and is designed to push them out of their homes and city. This policy includes denying permits to build in accordance with the residents’ needs and carrying out home demolitions.
On Sunday, 23 November 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a shack used as a barn and a shed for agricultural equipment.
ביום שישי, 21.11.25, הגיעו אנשי המנהל האזרחי, מלווים בחיילים, לכפר א-נבי מוסא שבמחוז יריחו והרסו בית מעץ של משפחה בת 9 נפשות ושני צריפי מגורים ושני דירי צאן של משפחה בת 11 נפשות והותירו 20 נפשות, בהן 8 קטינים, ללא קורת גג.
On Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer, at the village of Furush Beit Dajan. The forces demolished a seasonal home owned by a family of seven, including two minors.
On Saturday, 15 November 2025, at around 9:00 P.M., about five soldiers arrived on foot from a nearby military camp, to the community of Khirbet al-Maleh (Hamamat al-Maleh) in the northern Jordan Valley. They destroyed an empty sheepfold whose owners had been expelled from the community through settler violence on 20 August 2025.
On Wednesday, 12 November 2025, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers, at Kh. al-Fakhit, Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished the home of a family of seven, including three minors, an outhouse, and a water cistern.
On Tuesday morning, 4 November 2025, staff from the “Jordan Valley” Settlement Council, arrived with a military escort and diggers at the community of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa, in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished three unoccupied residential tents, two tents used as sheep pens, and three water tanks owned by two families, who own additional homes in the village of Furush Beit Dajan.
On Tuesday, 4 November 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the Sama Ariha area in eastern Jericho and demolished a vacation home, a swimming pool, and six water tanks owned by an East Jerusalem resident.
On Tuesday, 28 October 2025, at around 12:00 P.M., a Civil Administration enforcement officer, escorted by five soldiers, arrived at the community of Um al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills and delivered 14 demolition orders, 13 of them for structures built on or next to the ruins of ones demolished by the Civil Administration in 2014 and 2016. The targeted structures include a house, four residential tents, two kitchen tents, two caravans, one residential and one used for storage and as a guesthouse during the summer, a sheep pen and an outhouse.
On Monday, 10 October 2025, a family of three, including a minor, was forced to demolish their home and tin livestock enclosure in the village of Furush Beit Dajan, and relocate to another home they own in the village of Beit Dajan, about five kilometers away, following a demolition order issued by the Civil Administration.On Saturday, 27 October 2025, Civil Administration personnel arrived in the village of Furush Beit Dajan with a military escort and two diggers and demolished a house and a sheepfold owned by another family.
On Thursday, 18 September 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort, a bulldozer and an excavator at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli forces demolished the home of a family of nine, including one minor, and destroyed two water tanks. The forces also destroyed a seasonal residence belonging to a family of five, including three minors, and an agricultural building owned by a family of six, including a minor.
The demolitiTThe demolition in Khirbet al-Fakhit. Photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 19 Oct. 2020
This morning, 19 October 2020, at around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger to the community of Khirbet a-Rakeez in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills. The forces confiscated a tent that housed a family of five, including three children. The tent was donated to the family by the a-Tuwani village council after Israel demolished their home on 30 September 2020. From there, the forces continued south to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit and demolished a tin-roofed cinderblock structure that housed a family of four, including one child. The home was built with international humanitarian aid. Before the forces left, they destroyed a livestock pen and a storage tent owned by the same family. The forces continued to an area located between Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ and Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, where they cut a 2.5-kilometer stretch of piping used to supply water to Masafer Yatta communities.
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The demolition in Khirbet al-Fakhit. Photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 19 Oct. 2020