On Wednesday, 22 February 2022, at around 7:30 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel arrived with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger at the neighborhood of ‘Ein al-Jawizeh located in the part of the village of al-Walajah that was annexed to Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. The forces demolished the home of a family of three, leaving them homeless. They then continued to the neighborhood of Khilet al-Hawar, also in the part of the village annexed to Jerusalem, where they demolished a two-story, two-unit building still under construction designed to house two families numbering eight people in total, including two minors and another house under construction designed to house newlyweds in the future. The forces also demolished a wall and part of the roof of an unused shack next to the house. Israel annexed part of the village of al-Walajah to Jerusalem, but does not provide the village services and denies residents building permits, leaving them no choice but to build illegally. Dozens of homes are now under threat of demolition.
15 February 2023She'b al-Batem, Kh. Khallet a-Dabe'
On Wednesday, 15 Feb. 2023, at around 10:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger to the village of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills and demolished an agricultural structure. The Civil Administration demolished the family’s home on 3 Jan. 2023, along with three other homes. From there, the forces continued to Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe' in Masafer Yatta, where they uprooted about 50 olive trees belonging to a community resident.
On Sunday, 12 February 2023, at around 1:30 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the village of Fasayil al-Wasta in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a shack that served as the residence of a family of 10, including five minors, as well as an outhouse used by the family. The two structures were donated by ACTED. The forces then demolished a farm with three livestock enclosures, a shack and another shack still under construction. They also destroyed troughs, two water tanks and parts of a fence. The farm supported a family of seven, including four minors
On Sunday, 12 Februrary 2023, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a crane truck to the area of Masafer Bani Na’im and confiscated a trailer used for agricultural needs belonging to a resident of Bani Na’im. The forces then continued to the village of al-Buweib in the South Hebron Hills with a bulldozer and a digger, and demolished a rainwater cistern used for irrigation.
On Wednesday, 8 February 2023, at around 4:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to the current location of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa in the northern Jordan Valley. The community was forced out of its original location in 2021. The forces handed four families, numbering 26 people in total, including 16 minors, orders to vacate their homes for military training needs on 9 February 2023, from 8:00 to 11:30 A.M. The families were already required to vacate their homes on the same grounds on 31 January 2023, but elected to stay put as the training was held some distance away.
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and six bulldozers to the village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta, which lies west of Jericho. The forces demolished seven structures that served as vacation homes, one of which was a prefab and another under construction. They also demolished a swimming pool and three fences, damaged another fence, 13 water tanks and a road leading to one of the structures, and uprooted trees. The vacation homes belonged to seven families, numbering 43 people in total, 27 of them minors.
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023, at around 9:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger to the southwestern part of Khirbet Ma’in, a Palestinian village that lies southeast of the town of Yatta in Hebron District. The forces demolished two agricultural structures, destroyed two solar panels and broke two trees belonging to a family of 10, five of them minors. The forces then went to the southeastern part of the village, where they dismantled and confiscated a tent the family had put up on its land for resting during the olive harvest, on the grounds it was an archaeological site.
On Sunday, 22 January 2023, at around 1:00 P.M., soldiers came in a military vehicle to the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the central Jordan Valley and confiscated a digger used to clean a water reservoir. The soldiers claimed the confiscation was due to “illegal development and infrastructure work.” They drove the digger, which belongs to the reservoir’s owner, to a military base near the village of al-Jiftlik.
On Sunday, 22 January 2023, at around 3:00 P.M., soldiers arrived at Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley in a military vehicle and tried to confiscate a tractor used for plowing. The soldiers chased the tractor from the fields all the way to the office of the company it belongs to, inside the community, where they got into an argument with the farmers and the company owners. The soldiers left about an hour later without the tractor.
On Wednesday, 18 January 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the community of Khirbet Tatrit (‘Arab al-Fureijat) in the South Hebron Hills, which is home to roughly 30 families. The forces demolished a home under construction and a wooden agricultural structure belonging to a family of three, including a minor, and confiscated a caravan used as worker accommodations during construction. The forces also demolished another agricultural structure owned by two families from the community.
On Wednesday, 18 January 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers to the village of al-Jiftlik in the central Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of a family of seven, including five minors, and the home of a young couple. They also destroyed a water tank belonging to the family, and two water tanks and a power grid belonging to the young couple. Both homes were demolished on the grounds they were built on state land.
On Sunday afternoon, 15 January 2023, Israeli soldiers returned to the Jordan Valley with a bulldozer and blocked two more rural access roads, south of the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar.
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
