On Sunday, 2 October 2022, at around 5:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with representatives of the Jordan Valley regional settlement council and a military escort to Khirbet Ehmeir in al-Farisiyah, which lies in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces confiscated a tractor and ordered the driver to drive it to a military outpost near Khirbet al-Mazuqah, south of al-Farisiyah.
On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, at around 3:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to the area of al-Qa’un north of the village of Bardalah, in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces confiscated two tractors belonging to two area farmers, claiming they were in a “closed military zone”, and ordered the owners to drive them to a military camp near the settlement of Mehola.
On Thursday, 22 Sept. 2022, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with soldiers and a bulldozer to Khirbet a-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, the South Hebron Hills. They demolished the home of a family of seven, four of them minors. Construction of the house was funded by the charity Action Against Hunger.
On Wednesday, 21 Sept. 2022, at around 1:30 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort to the community of ‘Ein Samia in Ramallah District. The forces demolished three livestock enclosures that supported the livelihood of three families numbering 41 people in total.
On Wednesday, 21 Sept. 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a crane truck at Khirbet al-Marajim, a community that lies near the village of Duma in Nablus District. The forces confiscated a shipping container and its contents – a washing machine, a refrigerator, an oven, tables and chairs – belonging to a Palestinian who bought land in the area, and funded by the Ministry against the Fence and Settlements in the Palestinian Authority. The forces also confiscated an outhouse and a power generator funded by the local council.
On Tuesday, 20 September 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., representatives of the Jordan Valley regional settlement council arrived at the community of Khirbet Wadi al-Faw, which lies south of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley, and summoned soldiers to the spot. The soldiers detained the driver of a pickup truck who was transporting equipment for electrical works provided to the community by Comet-ME for use in residents' homes. In addition to holding the driver for several hours, they confiscated the truck and the equipment, which they ordered him to take to a military outpost near area community Khirbet al-Mazuqah.
On Tuesday, 20 Sept. 2022, around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at Khirbet Jamrurah, a community that lies northwest of the town of Tarqumya. The forces demolished a tent that was home to a family of six, four of them minors, as well as an outhouse and a shack that served as a livestock enclosure.
On Monday, 19 Sept. 2022, at around 4:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the community of Abu Shoushah, which lies near the town of al-Jaba’ in al-Quds District. The forces demolished a shack that was home to a family of 12, including eight minors, that was built with funding by Acted. The forces also demolished three water containers, as well as a tin shack and a wooden structure that served as livestock enclosures. In addition, the forces demolished a shack that was home to a family of five and a shack that served as a livestock enclosure, and confiscated a trough and two tables. The forces also dismantled and confiscated a tent that was used for storage, and confiscated three other tents before they were erected. All four tents were donated to the two families by the al-Quds District in the Palestinian Authority.
On Monday, 19 Sept. 2022, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with soldiers, Border Police and a bulldozer to an area west of ‘Ein a-Duyuk al-Foqa and demolished structures belonging to two families, who live in the area seven months a year and were not there at the time. In one family’s compound, the forces demolished a residential shack, another shack that was used as a barn, a kitchen structure, a bathroom structure, a chicken coop, a water container and a 200-meter-long barbed wire fence surrounding the compound. They also uprooted five trees. In the second family’s compound, the forces demolished a shack that served as a livestock enclosure. From there, the forces continued to the al-‘Awasaj farm south of the town of al-‘Auja in Jericho District, where they were joined by more soldiers and two trucks, one of them bearing a crane. The forces dismantled and confiscated four tents and a barbed wire fence about 300 meters long.
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.
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.
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.
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
