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.
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.