Israel demolishes family’s seasonal home and agricultural structures in Jordan Valley

On Monday, 19 Sept. 2022, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with soldiers, Border Police and a bulldozer to an area west of ‘Ein a-Duyuk al-Foqa and demolished structures belonging to two families, who live in the area seven months a year and were not there at the time. In one family’s compound, the forces demolished a residential shack, another shack that was used as a barn, a kitchen structure, a bathroom structure, a chicken coop, a water container and a 200-meter-long barbed wire fence surrounding the compound. They also uprooted five trees. In the second family’s compound, the forces demolished a shack that served as a livestock enclosure.

From there, the forces continued to the al-‘Awasaj farm south of the town of al-‘Auja in Jericho District, where they were joined by more soldiers and two trucks, one of them bearing a crane. The forces dismantled and confiscated four tents and a barbed wire fence about 300 meters long.