On Thursday, 15 June 2023, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration and Jordan Valley settlement regional council personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated four dwellings donated to the residents by a humanitarian organization, as well as sunshades belonging to four other families.
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023, at around 8:00 A.M. Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort, a digger and a bulldozer at a car lot in the village of ‘Ein ad-Duyuk a-Tahta in the Jordan Valley. The forces crushed and confiscated 88 cars, 80 of which had no license plate and eight had Palestinian license plates, as well as a shed used to store spare parts.
On Tuesday, 6 June 2023, at around 5:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of Tublas, which lies next to the main road between Hizma and ‘Anata, north of Jerusalem. The forces demolished a farmers’ break room, destroyed a water tank and uprooted 70 fruit tree seedlings, on agricultural land that supports the livelihoods of 18 people. The forces also demolished a caravan the family had used as a diwan (a structure used for entertaining).
On Tuesday, 6 June 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a soldier and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the community of Kh. Tatrit (‘Arab al-Freijat) in the South Hebron Hills and demolished a tent and a masonry structure used by a young couple for agricultural purposes.
On Friday, 2 June 2023, at around 11:00 A.M., agents of the Jordan Valley settlement regional council came to the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan valley with a military escort and confiscated a car belonging to a resident of the village of Tayasir, claiming it had been brought into a closed military zone. The council personnel ordered the owner of the car to drive it to the nearby settlement of Maskiyyot and leave it there.
On Monday, 29 May 2023, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at Sama Ariha area in eastern Jericho and demolished a two-story vacation home owned by an East Jerusalem family.
On 22 May 2023, the last remaining residents of the community of ‘Ein Samia dismantled their homes and their sheep pens and left what had been their home for decades. For years, the community’s approximately 200 residents had been subjected to extreme restrictions on construction of both homes and infrastructure, which included the demolition of residential and agricultural structures. They also suffered from violence carried out by Israeli security forces and by settlers living in outposts built in the area, who enjoyed full state support. Families began leaving the community because of this harassment in late 2018. Since 2019, Israel has demolished 18 structures in the community, including six homes that housed 41 people, 18 of them minors. The most recent demolition was carried out in January of this year, and a demolition order issued by the Civil Administration for the community’s school has been upheld by the court. Read more...
On 22 May 2023, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley and delivered demolition orders for the homes of seven families in the community.
On Monday, 22 May 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at an area south of Khirbet Ma’in in the South Hebron Hills with a military and Border Police escort, a digger and a bulldozer. The forces demolished a tent used as a residence by a family of seven, including five minors, and a residential structure still under construction owned by a different family. That day, at around 1:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at an area south of Khirbet a-Zuweidin in the South Hebron Hills with a military and Border Police escort and a digger. The forces demolished an agricultural water cistern.
On Sunday, 21 May 2023, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at farmlands south of the village of al-‘Auja in the southern Jordan Valley with a military escort and three bulldozers. The forces razed crops in an area spanning about 30 dunams [1 dunam = 1,000 sq. meters], and destroyed some of the irrigation system.
On Thursday, 18 May 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at Khirbet al-Marajim, southwest of the village of Duma, with a military and Border Police escort and a digger. The forces demolished a wooden shack used as a storage and break room in farmland belonging to a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem, and damaged the gate to the plot and the fence surrounding it.
15 May 2023al-Jawaya, Kh. al-Mufaqarah, Kh. Khallet a-Dabe'
On Monday, 15 May 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at the Khilet ‘Ayad area, south of the city of Hebron, with a military escort, a bulldozer and a digger. The forces razed farm fields in an area spanning four dunams (1 dunam = 1,000 sq. meters) and destroyed the fence surrounding them.The forces then continued to the community of al-Jawaya, southeast of the town of Yatta, where they uprooted and confiscated 50 olive seedlings.From there, the forces traveled to the community of Khirbet al-Mufaqarah in Masafer Yatta, where they destroyed a water cistern used for irrigation and uprooted about 100 olive and almond trees and grape vines.The forces then went to Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’, also in Masafer Yatta, and destroyed a 40-meter-long fence surrounding farmlands.
Demolition of homes in the town of Sa’ir. Photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem, 5 August 2021
75 People, 47 of them minors, were left homeless by the demolitions
5 August 2021: Israel demolishes homes and agricultural structures near Jericho and Hebron
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Residents of the al-Ka’abneh Mu’arrajat community after the demolition. Photo by Iyad Hadad, B’Tselem, 5 August 2021
On Thursday morning, 5 August 2021, at around 6:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a crane truck to the al-Ka’abneh community in Badu al-Mu’arrajat, west of Jericho. The forces dismantled and confiscated two tents that were home to a family of 10, including six minors, as well as two livestock pens belonging to the family. On 7 June 2021, the Civil Administration demolished structures owned by the family and by the father’s two brothers.
From there, the forces continued to another residential compound of the al-Ka’abneh tribe, where they demolished a shack that was home to 17 people, including 14 minors, and razed land around the house.
The forces then continued to the Ramon al-Mu’arrajat area. There, they demolished four ancient wells renovated in 2015 with funding by the Italian nonprofit GVC. The wells were used by 12 local families for drinking and farming.
That morning, around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel also came with a military and Border Police escort and four bulldozers to the town of Sa’ir in Hebron District, where they demolished two two-story residential buildings, both unoccupied. At the end of the demolition, young Palestinians began throwing stones at the soldiers and police officers, who hurled tear gas canisters and fired rubber-coated metal bullets at them.
4 August 2021: Israel demolishes homes, shops and agricultural structures in Jordan Valley, near Jerusalem and in Sabastiya
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Demolitions in Hizma. Photo by Iyad Hadad, B’Tselem, 5 August 2021
On Wednesday, 4 August 2021, at 3:00 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel came with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and cranes to the village of Hizma northeast of Jerusalem, which lies mostly within Area C. The forces demolished 13 shops made of concrete with tin roofs, including a hardware store, an auto parts shop and a grocery store. They also demolished the fence of a nearby house and a car wash.
At 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the western side of Sabastiya, a town that lies northwest of Nablus. The forces demolished a tin-roofed concrete structure used for agricultural storage and a room used as a rest stop for farmers.
At midday, after carrying out demolitions in Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley, the forces continued south to the community of Zra’ ‘Awad (al-Mukasar), where they demolished a tin-roofed concrete structure belonging to a family of 15, including six minors.
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The family’s belongings after the demolition in al-Qanub. Photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem, 4 August 2021
At around midday, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a truck to the al-Qanub area, east of Sa’ir in Hebron District. They demolished a tent belonging to a family of eight, including four minors, and a water container for livestock.
At around 1:30 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to the Wadi Rahal area south of Bethlehem and demolished a tin-rooefd structure used for storage and as a rest stop for farmers.
