16 December 2023 Frush Beit Dajan
On Saturday, 16 December 2023, around 10:30 A.M., soldiers arrived in a military jeep at land east of the village of Furush Beit Dajan and confiscated a tractor from farmer Tawfiq Haj Muhammad, on the grounds he was working within Firing Zone 903. The soldiers drove the tractor to a military camp nearby.
12 December 2023 Marj Na'jah
On Tuesday, 12 December 2023, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two bulldozers at a farm in the al-Khazuq area, located by the side of Route 90, north of the village of Marj Na’jah. The farm is owned by a family from the village. The forces demolished two agricultural water reservoirs and four agricultural structures, two of which date back to 1967 and had been used for storage and as a break room for farmers. The forces also destroyed about 180 solar panels used to run a generator to pump water from cisterns and irrigation pipes and confiscated the generator.
6 December 2023 Kh. Um Qusah
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at Kh. Um Qusah, east of the village of a-Zuweidin in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished two residential structures belonging to a family of 20, including 16 minors and two livestock enclosures it owns, as well as two residential structures belonging to another family, numbering a total of 18 people, including 13 minors. The forces also demolished two livestock enclosures owned by the second family. Both families were left homeless.During the demolition, residents and soldiers got into an altercation, and a soldier fired live rounds in the air. When the demolition ended, the forces arrested a local resident.
28 November 2023 a-Deirat, Um Safa
On Tuesday, 28 November 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, two diggers and a bulldozer to the ‘Arqub Yakin area, southeast of the town of Bani Na’im. They demolished a two-story home, leaving six people, including four minors, homeless. The forces then proceeded south to Khirbet a-Deirat, where they demolished another two-story home, leaving a family of five, including three minors, homeless. They then moved on to the village of Um Lasafa, where they demolished another home, leaving another family of five, including three minors, homeless.
27 November 2023 Khalet al-Furn
On Monday, 27 November 2023, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a digger to the community of Khallet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a structure farmers used for resting, three agricultural storage sheds and an outhouse.
22 November 2023 She'b al-Batem
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023, at around 10:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills and demolished the homes of two families, leaving nine people, including five minors, homeless. Israeli and international activists were present at the scene, and the forces arrested one of them. The families were not given an order and were told verbally that the area belonged to the outpost of Avigayil. The forces then moved on to the al-Khalediah area, southeast of the town of Yatta, where they demolished a water cistern used to water livestock. From there, they continued to the community of Kh. Emneizal, where they cut a pipe meant to supply water to the community of Kh. Wadi Ejheish.
21 November 2023 Frush Beit Dajan
On Tuesday, 21 November 2023, at around 7:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with members of the Jordan Valley settlement regional council at the village of Furush Beit Dajan and confiscated a cement mixer and a concrete pump, with their trucks, claiming they had been used to build an agricultural water reservoir without a permit. The Israeli officials ordered the drivers to take the vehicles to a parking lot near the town of Huwarah.
28 September 2023 Kh. Emneizal, Kh. Wadi Ejheish, Kh. Wadi a-Rakhim
On Thursday, 28 Sept. 2023, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a digger to the village of Khirbet Emneizel in the South Hebron Hills. The forces sawed off and confiscated a 270-meter pipe running from the village to Wadi Ejheish. The pipe was supposed to provide water to the community and to the community of Wadi a-Rakhim north of it, as Israel prohibits both from hooking up to the water grid. Laying the pipeline was funded by Action Against Hunger.
26 September 2023 a-Nuwei'mah al-Foqa
On Tuesday morning, 26 Sept. 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the community of a-Nu'eimeh al-Foqa, which lies north of Jericho, and demolished the home of 11 people, eight of them minors, leaving the family homeless. The forces also demolished a livestock pen and a chicken coop belonging to the family.
18 September 2023 Frush Beit Dajan, al-Jiftlik
On Monday, 18 September 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a home under construction designed to house a family of six, including four minors, as well as a break room in an agricultural plot. From there, the forces proceeded southeast to the village of al-Jiftlik, where they demolished a home under construction designed to house a family of nine, including three minors.
4 September 2023 Um al-Khus
On Sunday, 4 September 2023, at around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at Kh. Um al-Khus in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated a farmer’s tractor, claiming he had worked outside the area the Civil Administration allows him to cultivate. A member of the Civil Administration drove the tractor to a military base in the area.
3 September 2023 Qawawis
On Sunday, 3 September 2023, at around 1:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at farmlands near Qawawis, in the South Hebron Hills, and confiscated a farmer’s tractor, claiming he had worked outside the area the Civil Administration allows him to cultivate. One of the soldiers drove the tractor to a military base in the area.
17 November 2020
On Tuesday morning, 17 November 2020, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military jeep escort and a bulldozer to northeast Khirbet ‘Atuf. The forces demolished a tin shack with a cement floor intended for agricultural use, after the owner – a community resident – was issued a stop-work order on 10 May 2020.
Later that morning, at around 11:00 A.M., soldiers came with a bulldozer to the village of Furush Beit Dajan and demolished an agricultural pool owned by a resident.
At around noon, forces came with a digger to Khirbet Um al-Jamal, where they dismantled and confiscated a wooden hut that three activists from Tubas and Ramallah had set up in solidarity with area residents. Two days earlier, on 15 November 2020, soldiers had detained the activists and confiscated a car belonging to one of them.
At around 1:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military jeep escort and a crane truck to the community of Khallet Khader in the village of al-Farisiyah. The forces dismantled and confiscated a prefab that housed a family of three, including a child. They also demolished an outhouse and a water container. All three structures were donated to the family by a humanitarian aid organization after Israeli forces demolished their home on 19 October 2020.
