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.
A month after the settler attack: Israel confiscates tent in al-Mufaqarah and destroys dirt road and main pipeline of Masafer Yatta communities in South Hebron Hills
In the morning hours of Monday, 25 October 2021, Civil Administration officials accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers, and equipped with bulldozers, arrived at the community of al-Mufaqarah in Masafer Yatta. The forces confiscated a tent set up by community residents to host people visiting the area as a show of solidarity following the settler attack on 28 September 2021.
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Demolition of the solidarity tent. Photo by ‘Eid Hazalin
From there, the forces continued south and destroyed a dirt road leading from the community of Khirbet Khilet a-Dabe’ to the community of al-Fakhit. They also destroyed the main water line that ran alongside it, which serves most of the communities in Masafer Yatta.
The acts of destruction yesterday, as well as the settler attack on al-Mufaqarah, are part of the state’s attempt to expel the residents of Masafer Yatta from their place of residence. As part of these attempts, the state forbids them to legally build their homes or connect to water and power grids, restricts their grazing land, and enables acts of settler violence in order to make their lives so unbearable that they will leave of their own volition (Video Filmed by ‘Eid Hazalin and Itai Feitelson).
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Destruction of the water line. Photo by ‘Eid Hazalin
