On Saturday, 16 December 2023, around 10:30 A.M., soldiers arrived in a military jeep at land east of the village of Furush Beit Dajan and confiscated a tractor from farmer Tawfiq Haj Muhammad, on the grounds he was working within Firing Zone 903. The soldiers drove the tractor to a military camp nearby.
On Tuesday, 12 December 2023, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two bulldozers at a farm in the al-Khazuq area, located by the side of Route 90, north of the village of Marj Na’jah. The farm is owned by a family from the village. The forces demolished two agricultural water reservoirs and four agricultural structures, two of which date back to 1967 and had been used for storage and as a break room for farmers. The forces also destroyed about 180 solar panels used to run a generator to pump water from cisterns and irrigation pipes and confiscated the generator.
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at Kh. Um Qusah, east of the village of a-Zuweidin in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished two residential structures belonging to a family of 20, including 16 minors and two livestock enclosures it owns, as well as two residential structures belonging to another family, numbering a total of 18 people, including 13 minors. The forces also demolished two livestock enclosures owned by the second family. Both families were left homeless.During the demolition, residents and soldiers got into an altercation, and a soldier fired live rounds in the air. When the demolition ended, the forces arrested a local resident.
On Tuesday, 28 November 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, two diggers and a bulldozer to the ‘Arqub Yakin area, southeast of the town of Bani Na’im. They demolished a two-story home, leaving six people, including four minors, homeless. The forces then proceeded south to Khirbet a-Deirat, where they demolished another two-story home, leaving a family of five, including three minors, homeless. They then moved on to the village of Um Lasafa, where they demolished another home, leaving another family of five, including three minors, homeless.
On Monday, 27 November 2023, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a digger to the community of Khallet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a structure farmers used for resting, three agricultural storage sheds and an outhouse.
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023, at around 10:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills and demolished the homes of two families, leaving nine people, including five minors, homeless. Israeli and international activists were present at the scene, and the forces arrested one of them. The families were not given an order and were told verbally that the area belonged to the outpost of Avigayil. The forces then moved on to the al-Khalediah area, southeast of the town of Yatta, where they demolished a water cistern used to water livestock. From there, they continued to the community of Kh. Emneizal, where they cut a pipe meant to supply water to the community of Kh. Wadi Ejheish.
On Tuesday, 21 November 2023, at around 7:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with members of the Jordan Valley settlement regional council at the village of Furush Beit Dajan and confiscated a cement mixer and a concrete pump, with their trucks, claiming they had been used to build an agricultural water reservoir without a permit. The Israeli officials ordered the drivers to take the vehicles to a parking lot near the town of Huwarah.
28 September 2023Kh. Emneizal, Kh. Wadi Ejheish, Kh. Wadi a-Rakhim
On Thursday, 28 Sept. 2023, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a digger to the village of Khirbet Emneizel in the South Hebron Hills. The forces sawed off and confiscated a 270-meter pipe running from the village to Wadi Ejheish. The pipe was supposed to provide water to the community and to the community of Wadi a-Rakhim north of it, as Israel prohibits both from hooking up to the water grid. Laying the pipeline was funded by Action Against Hunger.
On Tuesday morning, 26 Sept. 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the community of a-Nu'eimeh al-Foqa, which lies north of Jericho, and demolished the home of 11 people, eight of them minors, leaving the family homeless. The forces also demolished a livestock pen and a chicken coop belonging to the family.
On Monday, 18 September 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a home under construction designed to house a family of six, including four minors, as well as a break room in an agricultural plot. From there, the forces proceeded southeast to the village of al-Jiftlik, where they demolished a home under construction designed to house a family of nine, including three minors.
On Sunday, 4 September 2023, at around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at Kh. Um al-Khus in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated a farmer’s tractor, claiming he had worked outside the area the Civil Administration allows him to cultivate. A member of the Civil Administration drove the tractor to a military base in the area.
On Sunday, 3 September 2023, at around 1:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at farmlands near Qawawis, in the South Hebron Hills, and confiscated a farmer’s tractor, claiming he had worked outside the area the Civil Administration allows him to cultivate. One of the soldiers drove the tractor to a military base in the area.
Confiscation of the tractor in the community of a-Rakeez. Photo by Neomi-Nur Zahor, 15 Dec. 2021
On Wednesday, 1 December 2021, the Civil Administration confiscated six tractors, four water containers, and five private vehicles in the Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar area in the northern Jordan Valley.
On Sunday, 5 December 2021, on the first day of military training in the northern Jordan Valley, the Civil Administration confiscated a tractor used by a resident of ‘Aqaba to perform agricultural work in the area.
On Monday, 14 December 2021, at 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with two bulldozers to the land of the community of Khalet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills. The forces raked agricultural land in a 4-dunam area, and demolished a cistern owned by a family from East Jerusalem by the power of Military Order 1797.
On Wednesday, 15 December 2021, Mahmoud Hamamdeh, a farmer from Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, plowed his plot of land in the Khirbet a-Rakeez area about a kilometer east of which the settlement of Avigail was established. A settler who noticed the work summoned the Civil Administration, who came to the scene accompanied by a military jeep and confiscated the tractor and a digger on the pretext that it was used for work on state land.
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Confiscation of the tractor near the community of She’b al-Batem. Photo by Itai Feitelson, 16 Dec. 2021
On Thursday, 16 December 2021, farmer Sa’id ‘Awad from the community of Um Lasafa plowed his land near the community of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills using a tractor and a digger. The work was coordinated with the Civil Administration (C.A.), and one of its representatives was present on the ground along with soldiers who accompanied him. At around 11:00 A.M., About six settlers came to the land. The settlers spoke with the representative of the C.A., and after a few minutes, the latter forbade the farmer to plow all his lands and ordered him to settle for part of it. The farmer moved to a nearby plow he owns, where the military does not require him to coordinate his work, and began plowing it. However, the C.A. representative and the soldiers then confiscated the tractor and the plow he used on the pretext that it was state land.
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A resident of al-Farisiyah forced to transport milk by donkey after the confiscation of the tractor. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 19 Dec. 2021