18 October 2018 بردلة, Bardalah, Bardalah
This morning, 18 Oct. 2018, at about 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration officials came with a three-jeep military escort and two bulldozers to the village of Bardalah in the northern Jordan Valley. The force demolished a shack that was home to a family of six, as well as three livestock pens and three tents used for storage.
17 October 2018 Kh. Susiya, Kh. Ghuwein al-Fauqa, Kh. Susiya, Kh. Ghuwein al-Foqa
On 17 October 2018, at around 4:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel escorted by soldiers and Border Police officers arrived at the village of Khallet al-Maiya, east of the town of Yatta, Hebron District, with a bulldozer. The forces demolished a newly built home that was still vacant.The forces then proceeded south toward Khirbet Susiya, in the South Hebron Hills, where they destroyed a livestock pen, and from there to Khirbet Ghuwein al-Fauqa, south of the town of a-Samu’, where they destroyed another pen.
14 October 2018
On Thursday morning, 11 Oct. 2018, at approximately 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration officials came with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers to the area of al-Musafah, which lies east of the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a pre-fab that was home to a couple and their child, leaving them homeless. The forces also demolished three livestock paddocks. They then continued south to the community of al-Mahruq, which lies east of the village of al-Jiftlik, and demolished two tents that were the winter homes of two families - 15 people altogether, seven of them minors - and two livestock paddocks.
14 October 2018 الحديدية, al-Hadidiyah, al-Hadidiyah
On Thursday morning, 11 Oct. 2018, at approximately 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration officials came with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers to the village of al-Hadidiyah in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished three huts that made up the home of a family of eight, four of them children, and a tent in which another member of the community lived. They also demolished a paddock and two livestock pens. The next day - Friday, 12 Oct. - al-Hadidiyah was declared a closed military zone from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. About ten soldiers, escorted by two police officers, came to the area and prevented Israeli human rights activists from helping the residents rebuild their homes. The soldiers arrested one of the activists. Video filmed by 'Aref Daraghmeh, B'Tselem
9 October 2018 خ. الحلاوة, Kh.al-Halawah, Kh.al-Halawah
Today, Tuesday, 9 October 2018, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, soldiers, Border Police and two bulldozers arrived at Khirbet al-Halawah in the Masafer Yatta area in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished three dwellings, donated to local residents by a humanitarian aid organization with European Union funding. The demolition left 21 people, including 13 children, homeless. The forces also confiscated four solar panel batteries and an electrical box donated to the residents by COMET ME, with funding from the Dutch government. Earlier this month, the Civil Administration and military confiscated a tent in the community, leaving homeless a family of six, including four minors. Ever since the 1990s, Israel has been endeavoring to drive out the residents of Masafer Yatta.
3 October 2018 Kh. al-Mufaqarah, خ. الحلاوة, خ. المفقرة, Kh.al-Halawah
Yesterday, 2 October 2018, at around 3:30 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort and a crane truck to Khirbet al-Halawa in the area of Masafer Yatta, the South Hebron Hills. There, they confiscated a tent that was home to a family of six, four of them minors. The tent had been donated by an aid organization. Today, 3 October, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel with a police, military and Border Police escort and a crane truck came to Khirbet al-Mufaqara, also in Masafer Yatta. They confiscated a metal frame that was to be the base for a pre-fab. Since the 1990s, Israel has been systematically attempting to drive the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta from their home
17 September 2018 Kh. Humsah a-Tahta
On Tuesday, 4 September 2018, at about 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel and laborers, accompanied by soldiers, arrived in Humsah a-Tahta in the northern Jordan Valley. They dismantled and confiscated a caravan belonging to the Bisharat family – the parents Khadijeh and Mahmoud and their three daughters. The caravan was donated to the family by the European Union after the Civil Administration demolished the family’s home in 2015. In 2017, the family was given a demolition order against the caravan, and fearing that it would be destroyed, they took it down it and moved in with Mahmoud’s parents. In August 2018, the family put up the caravan again with the help of volunteers.
13 September 2018 مدرسة الخان الاحمر, Khan al-Ahmar school, Khan al-Ahmar (Abu al-Hilu)
At about 5:00 A.M. this morning, Thursday, 13 September 2018, six Civil Administration vehicles escorted by dozens of security personnel arrived with a bulldozer and a crane at Wadi al-Ahmar, a new neighborhood established by the residents of Khan al-Ahmar and hundreds of activists two days ago. The neighborhood, which lies several hundred meters east of the community in the direction of the Kfar Adumim settlement, was set up to protest the High Court ruling of 5 September allowing the state to demolish the community. The forces dismantled and confiscated five pre-fabs provided to the residents by the Palestinian Authority.
6 September 2018 البرج (الخَليل), خ. ام الجمال, خ. عين الحلوة, al-Burj (Tubas), Kh. Um al-Jmal, Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh, al-Burj (Hebron), Kh. Um al-Jamal, Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh
On Sunday, 3 September 2018, Civil Administration officials accompanied by a military jeep arrived at Khirbet Um al-Jamal and the al-Burj area in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces issued temporary evacuation orders to seven families, totaling 39 members (including 25 minors), instructing them to leave their homes from 5:00 P.M. the next day, 4 September 2018, until 10:30 A.M. the following morning, 5 September 2018. The families evacuated their homes the next day, some of them staying with relatives in Tayasir and others in the adjacent community of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh. Some of the families led their flocks to the area around Khirbet al-Maleh. When the families returned to their homes the next day, they found that two cows had been killed in the military operations. The cows belonged to shepherds from Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh, who regularly graze their livestsock in the area. Other cows were injured.
4 September 2018 Qawawis, Qawawis
On 19 August 2018, Civil Administration personnel handed Yusef Abu ‘Aram, from Qawawis, a stop-work order for a home where his family of eight were set to live. Yesterday, 3 September 2018, at about 4:00 A.M., Civil Administration, military and Border Police personnel arrived with a bulldozer and demolished the home which was still under construction. At around 10:30 this morning, 4 September 2018, Civil Administration personnel arrived again and confiscated a tent given to the family by the village council for temporary shelter following the demolition. The Palestinian village of Qawawis is located in an area from which Israel has been trying to expel local residents ever since the 1990s.
20 August 2018 خ. الدير (بِيت لَحْم), Kh. a-Deir (Tubas), Kh. a-Deir (Tubas)
At about 9:00 A.M. on Friday, 17 August 2018, Civil Administration personnel and police forces, accompanied by a military jeep, came to Khirbet a-Deir in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces ordered Muhammad Dagharmeh, a resident of the community, to halt the expansion of a spring pool used for irrigation. They confiscated the bulldozer that was being used to excavate the pool and took it to the Jordan Valley / Beit Shean Checkpoint.
15 August 2018 مدرسة الخان الاحمر, ابو الحلو, خ. أبو فلاح, الكرشان, Khan al-Ahmar school, Abu al-Hilu, al-Kurshan, Khan al-Ahmar (Abu al-Hilu), Kh. Abu Falah, Abu al-Hilu, al-Kurshan
On 1 Aug. 2018, the court ordered the state to detail its proposed alternative for the community. On 7 Aug., the state responded in bad faith, suggesting a site to be prepared sometime in the future that does not meet the residents’ needs, lies close to a sewage treatment plant and requires expropriation of Palestinian land. It also demanded that the residents first move to the site near the Abu Dis garbage dump, cynically tying the alternative to their persuading 3 other communities to move, too. The immediate threat to Khan al-Ahmar must be stopped now. Its fulfillment will heighten the danger facing ~200 other Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
