14 September 2022 Kh. Wadi Ejheish
On Wednesday, 14 Sept. 2022, around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a tow-truck at the area of Wadi Ejheish, which lies south of Khirbet Susiya in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished a tent used for resting that Palestinian farmers put up on their land.
14 September 2022 a-Rifa'iya
On Wednesday, 14 Sept. 2022, at around midday, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the village of a-Rifa'iya in the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a tent that was used for agricultural purposes.
11 September 2022 Kh. 'Atuf
On 11 September 2022, at around 5:00 P.M., soldiers arrived in the vicinity of Khirbet ‘Atuf in the northern Jordan Valley and blocked two roads connecting Tubas District and the ‘Atuf area to Alon Road (578) with dirt mounds and boulders.
8 September 2022 Kh. Tana
On Thursday, 8 Sept. 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a settlement security vehicle at the area of a-Sawana which lies east of Khirbet Tana, a community located east of Beit Furik. The forces ordered a family of six, including one minor, to take apart the structures they were setting up in order to live there over the winter. This included two tents for the family to live in, two tents for livestock, an iron port and a barbed wire fence about 70 meters long. The forces then ordered the family to load the dismantled equipment onto a truck they were leasing and drive it to a military camp near Hamra Checkpoint. They did not allow the family to film what was happening.
6 September 2022 Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Tuesday, 6 September 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., soldiers arrived in jeeps at farmland in the area of Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley and chased tractors working there. The soldiers detained one of the drivers for about half an hour. They then confiscated his tractor, claiming it was in a “closed military zone”, and ordered him to drive it to the Beka’ot military camp.
24 August 2022 Wadi al-Ahmar, a-Zbeidat
On Wednesday, 24 August 2022, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of Wadi al-Ahmar in the southern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two inhabited seasonal tents that housed two families numbering 10 people in total, including four minors. In addition, the forces demolished a tent used as a kitchen, a livestock enclosure and a solar panel belonging to one of the families. They also demolished six seasonal residential tents uninhabited this time of the year, a livestock pen, and three tents used as livestock enclosures, which were not currently in use. That day, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the village of a-Zubeidat in the central Jordan Valley and demolished a home under construction slated to house a family of eight, including six minors.
22 August 2022 'Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta
On Monday, 22 August 2022, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers at ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta in the southern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished three homes, leaving three families, numbering a total of 14 people, including eight minors, homeless. In addition, the forces demolished four water tanks belonging to one of the families. The forces also demolished two homes under construction, one of which was slated to house a family of seven, including 2 minors, and the other slated to house one person, as well as seven vacation homes, one of them under construction, a fence, a swimming pool and five water tanks belonging to families from East Jerusalem and another family from the Hebron area.
17 August 2022 al-'Auja
On Wednesday morning, 17 August 2022, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a crane truck at the al-’Awasaj farm, south of the town of al-’Auja in Jericho District. The farm was established about a year ago next to the settlement outpost of “Omer’s Farm” to protect land in the area from landgrab by settlers. The forces uprooted and confiscated dozens of olive and palm seedlings. They also dismantled and confiscated posts and a chain-link fence that surrounded an area of over 20 dunams, and a 400-meter-long water pipe. The establishment of the farm, the equipment and the trees were funded by the Jericho Cooperative Association.
16 August 2022 a-Tuwani
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022, a few minutes after midnight, soldiers arrived in four military vehicles at the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. About 15 minutes later, they were joined by additional soldiers who arrived in five military vehicles along with two crane trucks. The soldiers blocked the entrances to the village and began smashing the windows of unlicensed parked cars, which the residents use to travel on agricultural roads. Soldiers spread out among the village homes, threatened residents who came out of their houses to the sound of breaking glass at gunpoint and ordered them to return to their homes. The soldiers confiscated five cars and left the village at 3:00 A.M.
16 August 2022 Kh. ‘Alan
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort, two bulldozers and a truck at Khirbet ‘Allan in the al-Jiftlik area of the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two prefabs and a stone room that served as two residential units of a family of 11, including a husband, his two wives and their seven minor children, as well as an outdoor kitchen and portable toilets. The forces also destroyed another home that housed an adult son of the same family. In addition, the forces demolished three shacks used as livestock enclosures and two tin rooms used for making cheese, and damaged two water containers and livestock pen fences. Filmed by: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem
15 August 2022 Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Monday, 15 August 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and three crane trucks at a banana grove spanning about eight dunams southeast of the community of Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar in the Jordan Valley. The forces confiscated about 300 metal poles intended to support a net that would protect the grove and cut an irrigation pipe. At the beginning of the month, Jordan Valley Settlement council personnel and the military confiscated a tractor and a forklift used to erect the poles.
14 August 2022 Qawawis
On Sunday, 14 August 2022, at around midday, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at the community of Qawawis in Masafer Yatta and confiscated 13 solar panels that provided electricity to six families numbering 40 people. In addition, the forces confiscated the posts on which the panels were placed. The confiscation was carried out while members of the Comet-ME non-profit were performing maintenance on one of the solar panels. Filmed by Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem
5 August 2021
5 August 2021: Israel demolishes homes and agricultural structures near Jericho and Hebron
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
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.
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.
