On Sunday, 5 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator, arrived in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished three reservoirs used for irrigating crops.
On Tuesday, 31 Dec. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a digger to the area of Khilet 'Alan near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The force demolished a home belonging to a family of three, one of them a minor.
On Friday, 17 Dec. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort, a digger and a bulldozer to the community of Nu'eimah a-Tahta north of Jericho. The force demolished two vacation homes, a swimming pool and the surrounding fence, owned by a family from Jenin.
On Monday, 16 December 2024, around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and equipped with three diggers in the northeastern part of 'Anata, a town in Al-Quds District. The forces destroyed 8 homes, leaving 8 families totaling 41 people, including 21 minors, homeless. The forces also demolished a shed that served as a sheep pen and a structure used as a guest hall (diwan) belonging to two of the families.Later that day, around 8:00 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and equipped with three diggers in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem. They demolished 9 homes, leaving 9 families totaling 32 people, including 15 minors, homeless. Israel is soon planning to demolish about 80 other homes in the neighborhood and to create a park in their place, all as part of its Judaization efforts in East Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, 10 Dec. 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in the South Hebron Hills. The force demolished two shacks and a tent that were home to a family of six people, five of them minors, leaving the family homeless. The force also demolished the family's outhouse.
On Tuesday, 10 Dec. 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and three diggers to Khirbet a-Twayel in the Jordan Valley District. The force demolished 10 homes, leaving 10 families totaling 47 people, 24 of them minors, homeless. The force also demolished nine sheep pens, two tents used to store animal feed, five water tanks and two fences, belonging to eight of the families.
On Wednesday, 27 Nov. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with people from the settlement council to the area of Khirbet Humsa a-Tahta in the Jordan Valley and confiscated a cart with solar panels. The officials ordered the owner to drag the cart to a nearby military base using a tractor belonging to another resident of the community.
On 25 November 2024, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator and a bulldozer, arrived in the al-Burj area in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the home of a family of eight, including four minors.
On Monday, 18 Nov. 2024, around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and equipped with a digger at the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the homes of five families totaling 30 people, including 17 minors. The families were forced to abandon their homes on 12 Aug. 2024 along with seven other families for fear of settler violence. All the structures were donated by the humanitarian organization ACF.
On Monday, 13 Nov. 2024, around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and two diggers to the village of Kardalah in the Jordan Valley and demolished an almost completed house intended for a couple to live in.
On Wednesday, 13 November 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a crane at the Palestinian community of Bardala in the Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated a pre-fab that served as a home for a family of five, including three minors, who had leased land in the village and moved there.
On Monday, 11 November 2024, in the early morning hours, Civil Administration personnel, arrived with a military escort at the community of Jaba’ al-’Ara’reh, northeast of Jerusalem, and demolished two structures that were used as a mosque and a diwan (a room used for community gatherings), six shacks used as sheepfolds and a garage.
The family's property left outside after the confiscated a prefab in Khallet Khader. Photo: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 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.
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Ruins of the agricultural pool in Furush Beit Dajan