On Monday, 14 November 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the neighborhood of a-Taybah in the town of Tarqumya. The forces demolished a shack that was home to a family of five, including three minors, and vandalized three solar panels and four generators belonging to the same family. They also demolished a shack that was home to a young couple, and vandalized six water containers and three solar panels the couple owns. In addition, the forces demolished six tents that farmers use for resting, and confiscated a truck that was transporting tents donated to the farmers by the Palestinian Authority’s National Commission against the Wall and the Settlements.
On Sunday, 13 Nov. 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour, which lies near the village of Deir Ballut in Salfit District. The forces demolished three residential tents and left three families numbering 15 people in total, seven of them minors, homeless. They also demolished three livestock enclosures belonging to the same families. The community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour consists of seven families numbering 35 people in total, 17 of them minors. The residents live permanently on the site, in tents, and live off shepherding. Their children attend school at Deir Ballut.
On Wednesday, 9 November 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the community of Khallet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated three containers that a family of five used for agriculture. About two hours later, the forces went to the area between Khallet al-Furn and the community of Birin, where they dismantled and confiscated a tin roof that a farmer had added to an old agricultural structure on his land.
On Thursday, 3 November 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-Fureijat in Hebron District. The forces demolished an outhouse, a fence around a plot of land and a water container, all belonging to a family of 13. They also demolished a livestock enclosure belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
On Thursday, 27 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa in the northern Jordan Valley with a military escort. The residents were forced to relocate after Israel demolished their community in July 2021. The forces handed six families with a total of 41 members, including 27 minors, orders to evacuate their homes for four days, on 1-3 November and on 9 November, between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., to make way for military training near their homes. Military training in the communities’ territory is a deliberate harassment of their residents in an attempt to drive them out of the area. The last evacuation of community residents on the pretext of training occurred in July 2022. The training eventually took place at a large distance from the community, and since only the men who take care of the flock remain in the community during this season, they just removed the flock from it.
On 31 October 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the village of al-Baq’ah, Hebron District, with a military and Border Police escort. The forces demolished a three-story building, still under construction, set to house three families with a total of 30 members, including 20 minors. The forces then continued south, to the community of Um Lasafa, where they demolished a house that was still under construction and was to be the future home of a family of 13, including three minors.
After the Civil Administration demolished a home under construction in Bani Na'im, the forces carried on to the community of al-Jawaya, southeast of the town of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, where they demolished two tents used as livestock enclosures. The forces then went to the community of Kh. Wadi Ejheish, southeast of the village of a-Samu’ in the South Hebron Hills, where they destroyed six seasonal residential tents belonging to five families with a total of 24 members, including 11 minors. During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters at residents who gathered at the site to try and stop the demolition.
On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers at the southern neighborhood of the town of Bani Na’im, located in an area known as a-Nabi Yakin Tomb, in Hebron District. The forces demolished a two-story building under construction set to house a family of 10, including five minors. During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters and live bullets and threw stun grenades at local residents who had gathered at the site in an attempt to stop the demolition. The forces also beat and arrested one of the locals.
On Monday, 24 October 2022, at around 10:30 A.M., officials from the Jordan Valley Regional Council, representing Israeli settlements in the area, came with a military escort to the community of Kh. Wadi al-Faw, south of Kh. ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The council officials and soldiers confiscated a trailer and a solar power generation system that had been given to the community by COMET ME. On 20 September 2022, soldiers confiscated equipment intended for the same solar power system, as well as the pickup truck transporting it, after settlement council representatives summoned them there.
On Friday morning, 21 October 2022, representatives of the Jordan Valley settlements regional council arrived at a dirt road about a kilometer long that Palestinian farmers recently dug near the community of Khallet Khader in al-Farisiyah, the northern Jordan Valley, and rendered it unusable.
On Wednesday, 19 October 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., military forces came to the village of Kardalah in the Jordan Valley and detained a truck driver transporting building materials. The forces ordered him to drive the truck to a military camp near the settlement of Mehola, where he was held for several hours before being allowed to leave with the truck.
On Sunday, 16 October 2022, farmers in the area of Um Kbeish, south of Khirbet ‘Atuf, found “Warning of Required Evacuation” orders in their plots of land. The orders related to about 350 trees, some of them olive trees, planted in an area of about 100 dunams, claiming the land is state land. On 6 October 2022, Civil Administration personnel placed an order to uproot some 140 trees in an olive grove in the area, based on the same claim.
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.
