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Rainwater cistern demolished by the Civil Administration in Khirbet Ibziq. Photo by ‘Aref Dagharmeh, B’Tselem, 27 June 2022
On Monday, 27 June 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the community of Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley.
The force demolished two residential tents, a kitchen tent and a tabun (traditional oven) belonging to two families numbering 15 people in total, including 11 eleven minors. The families live in the community nine months a year and leave for the summer. The force also demolished two tents that served as livestock pens, a tent used as a chicken coop, a tent used for storage and five tents used as tabuns, owned by four other families from the community that also leave for the summer.
In addition, the force demolished a rainwater cistern, a trailer, a water container and a hospitality tent the head of the council put up for community members to use, as well as uprooting trees.