On Wednesday, 23 February 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and bulldozers to the community of She’b al-Batum in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished the homes of two families, numbering 23 people, including 17 minors, as well as a shed belonging to another family. From there, the forces continued to the Abu Qabita area in the community of Khirbet Lasefar, which was sealed off by the Separation Barrier, where they demolished two uninhabited seasonal homes and two livestock enclosures.
22 February 2022خ. المالح, نبع الغزال (الفارسية), خ. ام الجمال, Kh. al-Malih, Nab’ al-Ghazal (al-Farisiyah), Kh. Um al-Jmal, Kh. al-Malih (Hamamat al-Malih), Nab’ al-Ghazal (al-Farisiyah), Kafr Jammal
On 22 February 2022, troops came to the community of Khirbet al-Malih again and conducted training, including live fire and tank maneuvers. The training prevented area shepherds from taking their flocks out to nearby pastures. That day, additional troops trained near the community of al-Farisiyah, put up tents in farmland and damaged crops. The soldiers fired live ammunition, and tanks performed maneuvers. On Thursday, 24 February 2022, at around 9:30 A.M., military forces came to the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal, passed by the community homes and conducted infantry training in farmland about two kilometers west of it.
16 February 2022البرج (طوباس), خ. عين الحلوة, al-Burj (Tubas), Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh, Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh, al-Burj (Hamam al-Maleh)
As part of the military training that began in the Jordan Valley on 25 January 2022, troops trained between 13 and 15 February 2022 west of the Hamamat al-Malih area, about five kilometers from the al-Burj community. During the training, the troops fired live ammunition, and area residents could not take their flocks out to pasture. The troops also destroyed recently sown farmland belonging to residents of Tubas and Tayasir. On the morning of 16 February 2022, dozens of soldiers conducted infantry training near the residential tents of the Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh community. That afternoon, troops conducted infantry training again, including live fire and tank maneuvers in the Hamamat al-Malih area.
On Tuesday, 15 February 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forced demolished an agricultural shack belonging to one of the community’s families for the second time. From there, the forces continued north to the village of Khallet al-Mayah, where they demolished a house under construction intended to house a family of six, including four minors, as well as the family’s cistern. During the incident, the homeowner came to the scene, and a confrontation ensued between him and the security forces, who knocked him to the ground, and one leaned his knee on his stomach. The forces then tied his hands and feet, grabbed them, picked him up, put him in a jeep and took him to the police station in Kiryat Arba. At the station, he was questioned on suspicion of assaulting members of the security forces and was released that night on a NIS 1,000 bail.
As part of the military training that took place in the western Jordan Valley beginning on 25 January 2022, in which troops destroyed dozens of dunams of crops, three cows belonging to a resident of Khirbet Tall al-Himma, were hit by shell fire on 7 February 2022 in Khirbet Jabaris, west of al-Farisiyah, and one died. That day, the Civil Administration issued eviction orders to seven families from the community of Khirbet Ibzik, numbering 45 people, including 23 minors, for three consecutive days (8, 9 and 10 February 2022). On each day, the families were forced to vacate their homes from 8:00 A.M. until 1:00 A.M. the following day. On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to the community and ordered the residents to leave their homes. The next day, the troops came to the area again, at around 9:30 A.M., and ordered the families to evacuate. On the morning of 10 February 2022, the families vacated their homes before the troops arrived. Each time, the families walked six to eight kilometers after the military forbade Palestinian vehicle traffic in the area and stayed at relatives' homes. During the evacuation days, infantry and tanks trained in the al-Qa’un area north of Bardalah and fired shells. In addition, the troops destroyed dozens of wheat, onion, corn, beans and chickpea fields, as well as irrigation pipes and agricultural dirt roads. On the morning of Sunday, 13 February 2022, military forces came to the area west of Hamamat al-Malih, about five kilometers away from the community of al-Burj. The soldiers put up tents there and dozens of them trained in the residents’ fields west of al-Burj and fired live ammunition. In addition, tanks trained in pastureland in the area, forcing the shepherds to keep the flocks in livestock pens.
8 February 2022فروش بيت دجن, Frush Beit Dajan, Frush Beit Dajan
On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, at around 10:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with a bulldozer to the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a metal-and-concrete rainwater pool funded by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture for use by area farmers. The demolition was carried out by virtue of an order issued to one of the farmers on 5 January 2022 by power of Military Order 1797.
Between 25 and 27 January 2022, the Israeli military conducted extensive training in Palestinian farmland in the Jordan Valley. During the training, tanks damaged about 30 dunams of wheat fields in the Khallet Ajmi’ah area, south of the village of al-‘Aqabah. The forces continued training until 27 January 2022. On Tuesday, 1 February 2022, the troops resumed training, this time near the communities of Khirbet al-Malih, al-Burj and Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa. The troops put up tents and trailers in the area and stayed there until the next day, Wednesday, 22 February 2022. The training included infantry and vehicle training, including four bulldozers. On Monday, 7 February 2022, dozens of soldiers in military vehicles and tanks arrived at the land of the villages of Um al-Jamal and al-Farisiyah, spread out in cultivated farmland and roamed among the residents’ homes. That day, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to Khirbet Ibzik and delivered orders to seven of the community’s families, numbering 45, including 23 minors, instructing them to vacate from their homes starting tomorrow, Tuesday, 8 February 2022. On each of the days, the families are required to evacuate from 8:00 A.M. until 1:00 A.M. the following day.
3 February 2022الحصة, al-Hosah, al-Hosah (Dier Nitham)
On Thursday, 3 February 2022, at around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and bulldozers to the community of al-Hosah, west of the village of Deir Nizam in Ramallah District. The forces demolished two tin-covered structures that housed two families from the same extended family, numbering 10 people in total, including 10 minors. The community is home to 70 residents, including 45 minors, who make a living from shepherding. The community receives electricity, water and other services from Deir Nizam.
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished four cisterns intended for agricultural use by power of Military Order 1797.On Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, two bulldozers and a digger to the Aqtit area, west of the town of a-Dhahiriyah in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished four uninhabited homes, one under construction, by power of Military Order 1797.In addition, the forces demolished 14 utility poles and cables, one kilometer long, that provided electricity to the homes of five families in the area.
On Sunday, January 30, 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer arrived at the village of al-'Aqabah in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a building under construction slated to house a family of ten, including eight minors. The demolition was carried out pursuant to Military Order No. 1797. The homeowner tried to block the forces using his car, and the soldiers arrested him and confiscated the car.
12 January 2022خ. الفخيت, Kh. al-Fakhit, Kh. al-Fakhit
On Wednesday, 12 January 2021, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with bulldozers to the Palestinian community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished nine structures, including three housing units inhabited by three families from the same extended family, leaving 18 people, including 11 minors, homeless. The demolition was carried out by the power of demolition orders delivered on 21 February 2016. The other demolished structures, belonging to the same family, included three livestock enclosures, a livestock pen, a kitchen, and fodder storage and a cistern on the family’s land. Khirbet al-Fakhit is one of the Masafer Yatta communities whose area of residence was declared “Firing Zone 918” by the military in the 1980s as part of Israel’s efforts to expel them. Twenty-two families live in the community, numbering 180 people. Most community structures face immediate risk of demolition after the families have been issued demolition orders. Although the area was declared a "firing zone," community residents tried to obtain permits for their homes retroactively. To that end, they even submitted an outline plan that could have allowed it if approved. These attempts, which were hopeless from the outset, failed after the Civil Administration Planning Committee, the Israeli District Court and the High Court of Justice rejected their requests. In early January, HCJ judges rejected the residents' last petition, and now the Civil Administration has begun enforcing the demolition orders. Filmed by Basil al-Adraa, Eid Hazalin and Itai Feitelson
12 January 2022خ. ام الجمال, نبع الغزال (الفارسية), خ. عين الحلوة, Kh. Um al-Jmal, Nab’ al-Ghazal (al-Farisiyah), Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh, Kh. Um al-Jamal, Nab’ al-Ghazal (al-Farisiyah), Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, 11 January 2022, dozens of soldiers arrived at the communities of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh and Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley and passed on foot near the residents’ homes on the pretext that they were training in the area. At the same time, dozens of infantry troops and tanks fired live ammunition near the community of Um al-Jamal and the village of al-Farisiyah. The training prevented area residents from taking their flocks out to pasture. The training in the Jordan Valley continued the following day, Wednesday, 12 January 2022, this time away from dwellings and cultivated fields.
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.
