On Wednesday, 10 August 2022, at around 5:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the town of al-’Auja in Jericho District. The forces demolished a residential tent of a family of eight, including three minors, a livestock enclosure, a livestock pen, a chicken coop and a tent used as a kitchen. That morning, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the community of Wadi al-Ahmar in the southern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two seasonal residential shacks belonging to a family of seven, including five minors, who do not reside there during the summer.
On Monday, 8 August 2022, at around noon, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the al-Baruq area in the village of al-Buweib in the South Hebron Hills and demolished the home of a family of seven, including five minors.
On Monday, 8 August 2022, at around 4:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort at the community of Abu Shoushah near the town of al-Jaba’ in al-Quds District. The forces demolished a residential shack of a family of 12, including eight minors, a shack slated to house a young couple and a livestock enclosure. In addition, the forces demolished two livestock enclosures belonging to two other families numbering 22 people, including eight minors. The community is home to 20 families whose children attend schools in the towns of Jaba’ and a-Ram.
On 1 August 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Jordan Valley Settlement Council personnel blocked the path of a forklift and a tractor with a trailer cart used to erect poles and spread nets in a banana grove east of the community of Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar. The council personnel summoned soldiers to the scene, who detained the driver and the owner of the vehicles for about six hours and then confiscated the vehicles, put them on a tow truck and led them to a military camp in the area.
On 31 July 2022, Jordan Valley Settlement Council personnel arrived at a quarry near the village of al-‘Auja in the Jordan valley and summoned soldiers to the scene. The soldiers confiscated a vehicle, cart and digger and led them to a military camp in the area.
On 28 July 2022, Jordan Valley Settlement Council personnel arrived with a military escort and an Israel Police vehicle at two vegetable stalls along Route 60, near the village of ‘Ein al-Beida and Bardalah, and confiscated the goods from the stalls, belonging to two Palestinian area residents. At the beginning of the month, the council personnel had already confiscated the goods of one of the vendors.
On Thursday, 28 July 2022, at around 12:20 P.M., soldiers erected a flying checkpoint between Khirbet al-Markaz and Khirbet Jenbah in Masafer Yatta and confiscated three vehicles. Members of the Palestinian-Israeli non-profit Comet-ME were traveling in one of the cars on their way to perform maintenance on solar panels in the community. In another car, a father was driving his six-year-old son back from an activity held by the YMCA at a school in Khirbet Jenbah for about 30 children from the two communities. The third car carried equipment used for the activity. The drivers were ordered to drive the vehicles to a military base in the area, where their passengers were detained until 4:00 P.M.
On 24 July 2022, Jordan Valley Settlement Council vehicles entered the community of Khirbet al-Farisiyah. Council personnel summoned soldiers to the scene who confiscated a truck transporting fertilizer to area farmers and led it to a military camp in the area.
On Monday, 25 July 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with a bulldozer, digger, and truck to the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta in Hebron District. The forces demolished the summer house of a family of six, including four minors. From there, the forces continued south to the village of al-Buweib in the South Hebron Hills, where they dismantled and confiscated a rest tent belonging to farmers. The forces then continued southeast to Khirbet Um Qusa, where they demolished the home of a family of six, including four minors, by power of Military Order 1797. The forces hurled two stun grenades at villagers who were protesting the demolition. In addition, the forces confiscated a minibus, ordered the driver to drive it to the settlement of Carmel and detained him.
On 24 July 2022, Jordan Valley settlements regional council personnel and soldiers who accompanied them chased Palestinian vehicles transporting water for watering flocks in al-Hadidiyah community. The forces confiscated two tractors and a water trailer and drove them to one of the settlements in the area.
On 22 July 2022, Jordan Valley settlement regional Council personnel arrived at the ‘Ein Shibli area while a digger was performing agricultural work and summoned soldiers to the scene. The soldiers confiscated the digger and ordered the driver to the settlement of Massu’a near the village of al-Jiftlik.
On 19 July 2022, in the afternoon, a vehicle of the Jordan Valley Settlement Council blocked the way of a water truck driver on his way to the Hamamat al-Malih area, where he was supposed to fill up water containers used by shepherds to water their flocks. The council personnel summoned soldiers to the scene, who confiscated the tanker and ordered the driver to drive it to a military camp near Khirbet Samra.
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
